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The history of the lives, acts, and martyrdoms of those blessed Christians
Smith, William A.M.
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1709
by printed for Eben. Tracy in London
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| Pagination | 188,[2]p.,plate |
| Number of Pages | 188 |
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About A.D. 96, Clement wrote from Rome that Peter and Paul endured persecution to their deaths, adding an honor roll of martyrdoms: “To these men with their holy lives was gathered a great multitude of the chosen, who were the victims of jealousy and offered among us the fairest example in their endurance under many indignities and tortures. Blessed are The Persecuted. Matthew f. A History of Persecution. Those who would live righteously for God have always been persecuted by those who would not. It has been this way from the beginning of history. Righteous Abel gave a worthy sacrifice to the Lord and it pleased the Lord.
These persecutions among the Christians increased the number of informers and many, for the sake of gain, swore away the lives of the innocent. Another hardship was, that, when any Christians were brought before the magistrates, a test oath was proposed, when, if they refused to take it, death was pronounced against them; and if they confessed. The Greek word martyr signifies a "witness" who testifies to a fact he has knowledge about from personal is in this sense that the term first appears in the Book of Acts, in reference to the Apostles as "witnesses" of all that they had observed in the public life of Acts , Peter, in his address to the Apostles and disciples regarding the election of a successor to.
Just as St. Luke's Gospel gives only the beginning of our Lord's ministry, that is, only a few specimens of the work of those wonderful three years, so this Book of the Acts is only a record of the beginning of the Christian Church in different places; a beginning and no more; not a . Most of Acts 7 consists of Stephen’s speech to the Jewish leaders in which he essentially summarized the history of Israel up to their rejection of their Messiah. At the end of the speech, Stephen utters these words, which seal his fate: “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.
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Collected from the best authors. [William Smith, A.M.]. The Works of William Smith, M.A. in Three Parts. the History of the Life, Death, and Resurrection and Ascension of. Jesus Christ. the Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms, of Those Blessed Christians, Comtemporary with the Apostles. William Smith.
This record of the affection of those blessed ones toward the brethren that had fallen may be profitably added on account of the inhuman and unmerciful disposition of those who, after these events, acted unsparingly toward the members of Christ.
Chapter 3. The Vision which appeared in a Dream to the Witness Attalus. Question: "What should we learn from Christian martyrs?" Answer: A Christian martyr is someone who died for his or her faith, rather than renounce Christ. Ever since Stephen was stoned to death outside Jerusalem (Acts 7), Christians around the world have suffered and died for the sake of Christ.
There are many lessons we can learn from the testimony of the martyrs. The Letter of the Churchs of Vienna and Lyons to the Churches of Asia and Phrygia including the story of the Blessed Blandina. The servants of Christ residing at Vienne and Lyons in Gaul to the brethren throughout Asia and Phrygia, who have the same faith and hope of redemption as ourselves, peace, grace, and glory from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
A number of works of Apolinarius have been preserved by many, and the following have reached us: the Discourse addressed to the above-mentioned emperor, five books Against the Greeks, On Truth, a first and second book, and those which he subsequently wrote against the heresy of the Phrygians, which not long afterwards came out with its.
But still even today the history of the martyrs is an important area of study, for us as Christians, for many reasons. One of which is that: 1) It reminds us of what the cost of being a disciple of Christ can be.
What the price was in ages past and what it continues to be today for many. (Luke ). Jared W. LudlowThe book of Acts was written by Luke after his Gospel as the second part of a great two-volume work on Jesus Christ and the early Christians.
Whereas the Gospel of Luke focuses on the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, the Acts of the Apostles builds upon what Jesus did and taught (see Acts ), recounting the story of the young, emerging Church and the work of the early.
The earliest attacks claimed the lives of many of the apostles. This text is the story, from around AD, of the martyrdom of Polycarp, the Bishop of the church in Smyrna, a city in Asia Minor (modern Izmir in Turkey) devoted to Roman worship.
The account is in the form of a letter from eye-witnesses to other churches in the area. It is important as believers for Christians to learn church history. It helps us learn from our ancestors. Followers need to understand where we came from to understand where we are going.
We can also learn from the mistakes of early church leaders if we understand their missteps. Lastly, learn key events that occured in church history over the. The second chapter sets out the historiographical context for the emergence of a patriarchal history.
It examines the writing of stories of martyrdom in the fifth century that were set during the earlier persecutions of the fourth century. Unlike the controversial missionary martyrs of the fifth century, the ‘greatest’ of the fourth century martyrs was a bishop of Ctesiphon, Simeon bar.
T he word “martyr” is the same Greek word that is more commonly translated “witness” in our English Bibles. However, we traditionally think of the word martyr in terms of someone who gave their life for a cause they believe in. 2 Timothy “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”.
Here are 8 martyrs, or groups of martyrs, that we find in the. The Early Christians In Their Own Words is an attempt by one Christian scholar to sketch a comprehensible image of the Christian life as it was within the first hundred years after the end of the Apostolic age, i.e.
the post New Testament era. Eberhard Arnold wanted to let his readers into the faith of those who received the Gospel message. The new world that has come out of it is the proof that at the bottom of this protest was a great principle which it has pleased Providence to fertilize, and make the seed of those grand, beneficent, and enduring achievements which have made the past three centuries in many respects the most eventful and wonderful in history.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, once a book revered as second only to the Bible, has of late lost a presence on Christian's bookshelves and hearts thereof. Never has a book led me to tears so often.
Foxe gives an account of many of the Lord's martyrs, primarily those during the time of the Protestant Reformation, revealing their godly lives and noble /5. The Book of Acts.
By COGwriter. This article is 'in-process' and eventually should include the entire Book of Acts, with commentary. The Book of Acts shows the return of Jesus to hatseaven, the start of the New Testament church, and various events related to spreading the gospel of the kingdom to many lands.
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
It has been said that the lives of the early Christians consisted of "persecution above ground and prayer below ground.".In his Epistle to the Romans, in which he reveals the mystery of the Jewish people, St.
Paul shows how Esau, the elder according to the flesh, is the Jewish people united to Abraham by a simple blood-tie, while the younger brother Jacob is the Catholic Church (formed of Jews and Gentiles) which, because it is united by faith to Christ, is.Fox's Book of Martyrs; Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs; from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Period.
To which is Added an Account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew Massacre in France, the General Persecution Under Louis XIV, the Massacres in the Irish Rebellions in the /5(3).
