 | George Gregory - 1790 - 434 pagina’s
...Chriftianity *. ' The Clergy, inftead of extirpating thefe errors, either gave them a Chriftian afpect, by inventing certain religious rites to cover their...or candles, by throwing them to the ground, with a folcmn imprecation, that the perfon againft whom the excommunication was pronounced, might be extinguifhed... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1803 - 606 pagina’s
...Christianity. The clergy, instead of extirpating these errors, either gave them a Christian aspect by inventing certain religious rites to cover their...they were perpetuated in the church, and devoutly transmitted from age to age. We may also attribute a considerable number of the rites and institutions,... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1810 - 588 pagina’s
...Christianity. The clergy, instead of extirpating these errors, either gave them a Christian aspect, by inventing certain religious rites to cover their...and thus they were perpetuated in the church, and devoutly'transmitted from age to age. We may also attribute a considerable number of the rites and... | |
 | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim - 1810 - 602 pagina’s
...Christianity. The clergy, instead of extirpating these errors, either gave them a Christian aspect by inventing certain religious rites to cover their...explaining them in a forced allegorical manner ; .and .hus they were perpetuated in the church, and levoutly transmitted from age to age. We may Iso attribute... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 580 pagina’s
...extirpating these errors, either gave them a Christian aspect, by inventing certain religious rites to (over their deformity, or by explaining them in a forced...they were perpetuated in the church, and devoutly transmitted from age to age. We may also attribute a considerable number of the rites and institutions,... | |
 | Thomas Charles Boone - 1826 - 598 pagina’s
...seventh and tenth centuries, great solemnities were added to the sentence of excommunication. The most important was the extinction of lamps or candles, by throwing them to the ground, with a solemn imprecation, that the person against whom .the excommunication was pronounced, might be extinguished... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1842 - 750 pagina’s
...Christianity. The clergy, instead of extirpating these errors, either gave them a Christian aspect by inventing certain religious rites to cover their...they were perpetuated in the church, and devoutly transmitted from age to age. We may also attribute a considerable number of the rites and institutions,... | |
 | Martin Ruter - 1845 - 458 pagina’s
...Christianity. The clergy, instead of extirpating these errors, gave them a Christian aspect, either by inventing certain religious rites to cover their...they were perpetuated in the Church, and devoutly transmitted from age to age. Between the seventh and the tenth century, great solemnities were added... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1875 - 606 pagina’s
...Christianity. The clergy, instead of extirpating these errors, either gave them a Christian aspect by inventing certain religious rites to cover their...manner; and thus they were perpetuated in the church [a state of things subsequently prophetically noted, as we shall see], and devoutly transmitted from... | |
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... observed, that a great part of these new rites derived their origin from the various errors which the barbarous nations had received from their ancestors, and still retained, even after their conversion to Christianity. The clergy, instead of extirpating... 