A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Volume 3

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Harper & brothers, 1887
 

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Page 20 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto - them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Page 616 - Besides this, there was the Procession of the Holy Ghost from both the Father and the Son, in which Charlemagne forced Leo III.
Page 386 - ... arts or by the services of a familiar demon subject to their orders. As the neophyte in receiving baptism renounced the devil, his pomps and his angels, it was necessary for the Christian who desired the aid of Satan to renounce God. Moreover, as Satan when he tempted Christ offered him the kingdoms of the earth in return for adoration — ' If thou therefore wilt worship me all shall be thine...
Page 549 - Protestant and Catholic rivalled each other in the madness of the hour. Witches were burned no longer in ones and twos, but in scores and hundreds. A bishop of Geneva is said to have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Bamburg six hundred, a bishop of Wiirzburg nine hundred. Eight hundred were condemned, apparently in one body, by the Senate of Savoy.
Page 51 - III. and that pinchbeck Innocent, Boniface VIII., who, in the popular phrase of the time, came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog.
Page 624 - Friend, wherefore art Thou come hither?' And if He shall persevere in knocking and giving you nought, cast him forth into outer darkness." Now it came to pass that a certain poor clerk came to the court of the lord Pope, and cried out, saying: "Have pity on me...
Page 192 - Inquisitors, therefore, were fully justified in laying it down as an accepted principle of law that disobedience to any command of the Holy See was heresy ; so was any attempt to deprive the Roman Church of any privilege which it saw fit to claim. As a corollary to this was the declaration...
Page 379 - ... passes from one race to another and is handed down through countless generations; it adapts itself successively to every form of religious faith ; persecution may stifle its outward manifestation, but it continues to be cherished in secret, perhaps the more earnestly that it is unlawful. Religion may succeed religion, but the change only multiplies the methods by which man seeks to supplement his impotence by obtaining control over supernatural powers, and to guard his weakness by lifting the...

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