The Martyrs, Or A History of Persecution: From the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Time Including an Account of the Trials, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths of Many who Have Suffered Martyrdom

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E. Deming. Printed at the Chronicle Office, 1830 - 556 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 312 - And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying. Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Σελίδα 546 - In the mean time, my strength and my voice returned) and I broke out aloud into prayer. And now the man who just before headed the mob, turned and said, ' Sir, I will spend ' my life for you. Follow me, and not one soul here shall
Σελίδα 546 - ... and pulled back four or five, one after another, who were running on the most fiercely. The people then, as if it had been by common consent, fell back to the right and left; while those three or four men took me between them, and carried me through them all. But on the bridge the mob rallied again: we therefore went on one side over the mill-dam, and thence through the meadows, till, a little before ten, God brought me safe to Wednesbury, having lost only one flap of my waistcoat and a little...
Σελίδα 502 - Blood: who in the same night that he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
Σελίδα 544 - That I will, with all my heart.' I then spoke a few words, which God applied; so that they cried out with might and main, 'The gentleman is an honest gentleman, and we will spill our blood in his defence.
Σελίδα 544 - Now is the time for us to go." But they pressed me exceedingly to stay; so, that I might not offend them, I sat down, though I foresaw what would follow. Before five the mob surrounded the house again, in greater numbers than ever. The cry of one and all was, " Bring out the minister; we will have the minister.
Σελίδα 546 - What evil have I done? Which of you all have I wronged in word or deed?' And continued speaking for above a quarter of an hour, till my voice suddenly failed. Then the floods began to lift up their voice again, many crying out, 'Bring him away! bring him away!
Σελίδα 539 - And for every Quaker, he or she that shall a third time herein again offend, they shall have their tongues bored through with a hot iron and be kept at the house of correction' close at work, till they be sent away at their own charge.
Σελίδα 255 - To confess the truth, I never knew the art of speaking carried so near the model of ancient eloquence. It was, indeed, amazing to hear with what force of expression, with what fluency of language, and with what excellent reasoning, he answered...
Σελίδα 546 - Are you willing to hear me speak?' Many cried out, 'No, no! knock his brains out; down with him; kill him at once.' Others said, 'Nay, but we will hear him first.

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