An Historical View of Christianity; Containing Select Passages from Scripture (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...and our hospitals in each of your cities, so that own beggars. When none of the Jews itrangers may partake of our benevo-are obliged to beg, and the Galilje jence; and not only those of our reli-Ans Relieve Both Their Own Poor gion, but, if they are indigent, others And Ours, it is shameful that our poor also. How these expences are to be should receive no assistance from us. defrayed, must now be considered. I To Arsacius, high priest of Galatia. K tage, Rom. i. 21. God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to un CoMMENTARY. tage, which they had acquired by the exclusive practice of charity and beneficence. The same spirit of imitation might dispose the emperor to adopt several ecclesiastical institutions, the use and importance of which were approved by the success of his-enemies. But if these imaginary plans of reformation had been realized, the forced and imperfect copy would have been less beneficial to paganism, than honourable to Christianity. The Gentiles, who peaceably followed the customs of their ancestors, were rather surprised than pleased with the introduction of foreign manners; and, in the short period of his reign, Julian had frequent occasions to complain of the want of fervour of his own party. Final extinc-The experience of ages had betrayed the weakness, as ganism.'D. we folty f paganism; the light of reason and of faith 390-420. ' nafj Hume.--The stones of the gods on many occasions, directly opposite;.. were numberless; and though every and no reason could be assigned for one, almost, believed a part of these preferring one to the other. And as stories, yet no one could believe or Uiere was an infinite number of stories...