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Identifier: handofgodinhis00read (find matches)
Title: The hand of God in history, or, Divine providence illustrated in the extension and establishment of Christianity throughout the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Read, Hollis, 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John E. Potter & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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om the earth.And under the tenth and last persecution, they boastedthat their design was accomplished; the church was ex-tinct. Yet their boast is scarcely uttered, before theChristian church rises triumphant over the Roman Empire, and that empire itself falls to ruin. Again, howcompletely the voice of piety is suppressed, and her veryexistence seems annihilated previous to the Reformationin the sixteenth century; yet, soon we see her rising inall her pristine strength and glory, and kings again Lowdown to her, while the vaunting powers of Rome, underimperial auspices, avail nothing. Philip II. of Spain,Bloody Mary of England, and Louis XIY. of Irance, inpersecutions of exquisite cruelty and unwonted virulence,each, m turn, raise their puissant arms to sweep Protest^antism from the earth. Yet the church of God moveson—through blood, through fire and faggots, purified, in-vigorated, enlarged, in proportion to the madness of theirfolly and guilt. Again, Julian, the apostate, Voltaire,
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