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Common terms and phrasesAbbat Abbess Ælfred aforesaid afterwards Agilbert Aidan alfo answer'd Apostles Archbishop ask'd Augustin baptiz'd Bede began Birinus Bishop blesled blessed Body Britain Britons Brother brought built bury'd call'd Cambden Canterbury Catholick Cedd Chap Christian Church City Colman commanded consecrated Country Death Deiri Divine dy'd Eadbald Eadbert Easter Ecgfrid Enemy English Episcopal eternal faid Faith of Christ fame Father fays fent firft follow'd fome France govern'd Grace Gregory hapned Heaven Heavenly Kingdom himfelf Holy Honour Incarnation Ireland Island Kalends King Edwin King of Kent King Oswald King's Labour Lindisfarn liv'd Lord Mercians Miracles moft Monastery Monks Nation Northumbrians Number Ofwy ordain'd order'd Oswy Pagan Paulinus Peada Pelagian Penda Place call'd Pope Prayer Prelate Priest Province receiv'd Reign reign'd Relicks return'd Reverend River Rome Saxon Annals Scots sent Servant Soul Synod Tear ther Things thither thofe thought tion Trumhere Virgin whilst Wighard Wilfrid wont World Popular passagesPage 270 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles... Page 404 - ... turn his heart from their gods, and convert him to the new religion of the Christian faith ; and thus by degrees all their province should change its old worship for a new. Hereupon they, on a sudden, laid hold of them and put them to death ; the White Hewald they slew immediately with the sword ; but the Black they put to tedious torture and tore limb from limb, throwing them into the Rhine. The chief, whom they... Page 353 - ... resurrection of our Lord, and his ascension into heaven ; the coming of the Holy Ghost, and the preaching of the apostles ; also the terror of future judgment, the horror of the pains of hell, and the delights of heaven ; besides many more about the Divine benefits and judgments, by which he endeavoured to turn away all men from the love of vice, and to excite in them the love of, and application to, good actions... Page 352 - They expounded to him a passage in holy writ, either historical, or doctrinal, ordering him, if he could, to put the same into verse. Having undertaken it, he went away, and returning the next morning, gave it to them composed in most excellent verse /whereupon the abbess, embracing the grace of God in... Page 130 - He was the third of the English kings that had the sovereignty of all the southern provinces that are divided from the northern by the river Humber, and the borders contiguous to the same ; but the first of the kings that ascended to the heavenly kingdom. Page 72 - Christianity, but only showed more affection to the believers, as to his fellow-citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Page 284 - When they were come, he first admonished them to preserve the virtue of peace among themselves, and towards all others ; and indefatigably to practise the rules of regular discipline, which they had either been taught by him, or seen him observe, or had noticed in the words or actions of the former fathers, Then he added, that the day of his death was at hand ; for, said he, "that... Page 161 - These things happened in the province of the Bernicians ; but in that of the Deiri also, where he was wont often to be with the king, he baptized in the river Swale, which runs by the village of Cataract ; for as yet oratories, or fonts, could not be made in the early infancy of the church in those parts. Page 114 - Earth, take that body which at first you gave, Till God again shall raise it from the grave. His soul amidst the stars finds heavenly day ; In vain the gates of darkness make essay On him whose death but leads to life the way. To the dark tomb this prelate though decreed, Lives in all places by his pious deed. Before his bounteous board pale Hunger fled ; To warm the poor he fleecy garments spread ; And to secure their souls from Satan's power, He taught by sacred precepts every hour ; Nor only taught,... Page 71 - ... did not refuse them liberty to preach. It is reported that, as they drew near to the city, after their manner, with the holy cross, and the image of our sovereign Lord and King, Jesus Christ, they, in concert... References from web pagesThe Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation The Online Books Page: The Ecclesiastical History of the English ... Medieval Sourcebook: Bede: Ecclesiastical History of England I he Marshall: English Literature For Boys And Girls: Chapter XIV ... Ecclesiastical History of the English People/Full text - Wikisource Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England | Christian Classics ... Indogermanic & Christian Elements in Beowulf - notes 【古本・古書(販売/買取)】本を愛する人の総合サイト・スーパー源氏 ... st bede libri - I Libri dell'autore: St Bede ... Revista Brasileira de Educação - The role of the Church in the ... Bibliographic information |