An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern
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ISBN13: 9780217774802
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fiercest and most barbarous nations. The religiou orders, that made the greatest figure in these missions, were the Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, and Capuchins, who, though concerned in one common cause, agreed very ill among themselves, publicly accusing each other, with the most bitter reproaches and invectives, of want of zeal in the service of Christ, Awl: even of corrupting the purity of the Christian .doctrine to promote their ambitious purposes. But none of these teachers of religion were so generally accused of sinister views and unworthy practices, in this respect, as the Jesuits, who were singularly .odious in the eyes of all the other missionaries, and were looked upon as a very dangerous and pernicious set of apostles by a considerable part of the Romish church. Nor, indeed, could they be viewed in any other light, if the general report be true, that, instead of instructing their proselytes in the genuine doctrines of Christianity, they then taught, and still teach, a corrupt system of religion and morality, that is not burthensome to the conscience, and is reconcileable with the indulgence of gross appetites and passions; rr-thatthey not only tolerate, but even countenance, in new converts, several profane opinions and superstitious rites and customs;?that, by commerce, carried on with the most rapacious avidity, and various other methods, little consistent with probity and candor, they have already acquired an overgrown opulence, which they augment from day to day;? that they burn with the thirst of ambition, and are constantly gaping after worldly honors and preroga- .tives;-r?that they are perpetually employing the arts 4f adulation, and the seductions of bribery, to insinuate themselves into the friendship and protection of men in power;?that they are deeply i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217774802 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217774806 |
| Weight | 1.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.38 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 624 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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