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Coligny: The Earlier Life of the Great Huguenot Eugene Bersier,Annie Harwood Holmden No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 280 - Spirit, and that we receive and eat sacramentally and spiritually and through faith that very Body which died for us, that we may be bone of His Bone and flesh of His Flesh, to the end that we may be vivified by it, and perceive through it all things necessary for our salvation. And since faith, established on the Word of God, renders present to us things which are promised, and since through that faith...
Page 336 - Sound your conscience," he said. " Are you prepared to face general disorders, to bear the reproaches of your own partisans as well as your enemies, to hear of treasons of your friends, to bear exile into foreign lands, shame, nakedness, hunger, not for yourself only, but, which is worse, for your children, to expect your death at the hands of an executioner after that of your husband ? I give you three weeks to consider." "They are gone already,
Page 307 - You informed my brother," he said, " that in Germany we are both of us suspected of having contributed to the execution of a large number of innocent Christians during the reigns of Henry and of Francis the Second. Well ! I swear to you...
Page 320 - Sire, it is true that it is the lot of the Church of God, in the name of which I speak, to endure blows, and not to give them ; but also may it please you to remember that it is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.
Page 202 - Ludlow, who was to play an important part in the affairs of the Commonwealth, was present at the action with Essex, being a recruit in his bodyguard.
Page 241 - Very well, then there will be a gray friar hung ! Many others will therefore have to be hung, for God, by His Holy Spirit, will inspire the pillars of His church to uphold the edifice, which will never be overthrown until the end of the world, whatever blows may be struck at it.
Page 232 - ... soon as supper was over, a psalm should be sung and prayer offered. It cannot be told how many of the French nobility began to establish this religious order in their own families...
Page 280 - Supper offers, gives, and truly exhibits to us, the substance of his body and blood, by the operation of the Holy...
Page 123 - Milan, say that, during his imprisonment, having no other exercise, he set himself to reading, and had all sorts of books brought to him...
Page 5 - I owe everything," which was indeed a tribute as true as it was graceful, only that the moral levity of the Gascon detracted somewhat from his greatness as a hero. Side by side with these figures famed in story stand Madame...