Valdenses, Valdo, and Vigilantius: Being the Articles Under These Titles in the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Adam and Charles Black, 1841 - 69 pagina's
 

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Pagina 51 - He and his disciples were commanded by episcopal authority not to speak at all, nor preach in the name of Jesus ; they answered as Peter and John had done before the council at Jerusalem.
Pagina 32 - Albert, is disposed to show thetn kindness, and to place them on a level with his other subjects. He has proved this by numberless acts of favour : but the tiara and the mitre are too strong for the crown in Piedmont, and the baneful influence of the Papal authority, so late as September 1837, wrung from the reluctant King two articles in the new code of Sardinia, by which the intolerant edicts of the 16th and 17th centuries are renewed, and may be put in force as soon as the Roman hierarchy shall...
Pagina 20 - Is it not extraordinary," says the historian Leger, " that it has never once happened that any one of our princes or their ministers should have offered the least contradiction to their Valdensian subjects, who have again and again asserted in their presence, ' We are descended from those who, from father to son, have preserved entire the apostolical faith, in the valleys which we now occupy.
Pagina 8 - ... of the Holy Spirit), we eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ, and are one with him, we may have spiritual and eternal life. XXX. We believe it to be necessary that the church should have learned pastors of blameless life, (bishops, priests, and deacons, as was usual in the primitive church...
Pagina 20 - And is it not extraordinary,' he asks, ' that it has never once happened, that any of the dukes of Savoy, or their ministers, should have offered the least contradiction to the pretensions of their Vaudois subjects ? Again and again it has been asserted by them, " we are descendants of those, who from father to son have preserved entire the apostolical Faith in the valleys which we now occupy.
Pagina 35 - By decree of the holy congregation of Rome, the undermentioned publication is condemned and prohibited, viz., the New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, translated into the Piedmontese dialect.
Pagina 35 - They also labour under the disadvantage of having to lea™ three languages before they can receive competent instruction. Their national language is Italian ; their vernacular tongue is a provincial dialect peculiar to their district: and the language of instruction is French, because in that only they can obtain books of devotion used by Protestants. ' If the Government of Great Britain should cease to exercise its good offices at the court of Turin in behalf of the Protestants of Piedmont, or...
Pagina 4 - A curious passage, singularly descriptive of the character of the Swiss, has lately been discovered in a MS. chronicle of the Abbey of Corvey. which appears to have been written about the beginning of the twelfth century.
Pagina 8 - Nonconformist divine, also realized the true spirit of religious liberty, and suggested that the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments should be...

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