| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1803 - 464 pages
...when they saw the rites and ceremonies to which they were Accustomed, adopted in the church, and the same worship paid to CHRIST and his martyrs, which...external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax-tapers, crosiers \_n],... | |
| Joseph Lomas Towers - Bible - 1808 - 346 pages
...century, and received the greatest encouragement39. Christianity was now indeed com-, pletely paganised. ' The religion of the Greeks and Romans differed very...external appearance from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, waytapers40 crosiers,... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church and state - 1810 - 450 pages
...formerly offered to their idol deities. Hence it happened, that in these times, the religion of die Greeks and Romans differed very little, in its external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers,"... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Bibliography - 1811 - 494 pages
...his martyrs, which they had formerly offered to their idol deities. Hence it happened, that, in thele times, the religion of the Greeks and Romans differed...little, in its external appearance, from that of the Cliriftians. They had both a moft pompous and fplendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax-tapers,... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1824 - 538 pages
...when they saw the rites and ceremonies to which they Avere accustomed, adopted in the church, and the same worship paid to Christ and his martyrs, which...external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers,"... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1824 - 544 pages
...martyrs, which they had formerly offered to their idol deities. Hence it happened, that in these tunes, the religion of the Greeks and Romans differed very...external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers,"... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1826 - 442 pages
...when they saw the rites and ceremonies to which they were accustomed, adopted in the church, and the same worship paid to Christ and his martyrs, which...external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax-tapers, crosiers ",... | |
| Robert Meek - 1834 - 436 pages
...with a more favourable eye, and to embrace more readily, Christianity. " Hence," Mosheim remarks, " it happened, that in these times, the religion of...external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual ; gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers,... | |
| William James Early BENNETT - 1837 - 458 pages
...veneration for fictitious deities were now adopted, with some slight alterations, by Christian bishops. Hence it happened that in these times the religion...external appearance from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual; gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers,... | |
| Spirit - 1840 - 406 pages
...the half-converted multitude, and also to augment their number. " Hence it happened," says Mosheim, "that in these times the religion of the Greeks and...external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a pompous and most splendid ritual, gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers,... | |
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