 | Richard Watson - 1776 - 316 pàgines
...form of a fleep" ing, fometimes of a waking vifi' ; on; and were liberally beftowed " on all ranks of the faithful, •' on women as on elders, on boys...difclofe the future hiftory, or to " guide the prefent adminiftratioa •' of the church." " You fpeak of * ' the expulfion of Demons as an *' ordinary triumph... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1783 - 524 pàgines
...juft as a pipe or flute is of him •who blows into it75. We may add, that the defign of thefe vifions was, for the moft part, either to difclofe the future hiftory, or to guide the prefent adminiflration of the church. The expulfion of the daemons from the bodies of thofe unhappy perfons... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1787 - 502 pàgines
...a waking or of a sleeping vifion , is defcribed as a favour very liberally beftowed on all ranks of the faithful, on women as on elders, on boys as well as 'upon bishops. When their devout minds were fufficiently prepared by a courfe of prayer, offafting, and of... | |
 | Richard Watson (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1791 - 266 pàgines
...the form of a fleeping, fometimes of a. waking vifion ; and were liberally beftowed on all ranks of the faithful, on women as on elders, on boys as well as upon bifhops."' " The deilgn of thefe vifions," you fay, " was for the moft part either to difclofe the future hiftory, or... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 pàgines
...waking or of a sleeping vision, is described as a favour very liberally bestowed on all ranks of tile faithful, on women as on elders, on boys as well as upon bishops. When their devout minds were sufficiently prepared, by a course of prayer, of fusting, and... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 pàgines
...sometimes in the form of awaking, sometimes a sleeping vision, and were liberally bestowed on all ranks of the faithful — on women as on elders, on boys as well as on bishops." The obvious reply to these representations may be given in the words of Bishop Watson... | |
 | 1851 - 372 pàgines
...a waking or of a sleeping vision, is described as a favour very liberally bestowed on all ranks of the faithful, on women as on elders, on boys as well as upon bishops. When their devout minds were sufficiently prepared by a course of prayer, of fasting, and... | |
 | John Smythe Memes - 1853 - 752 pàgines
...the form of a sleeping, sometimes of a waking vision ; and were liberally bestowed on all ranks of the faithful, on women as on elders, on boys as well as upon bishops." " The design of these visions, you say, "was for the most part either to disclose the future... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pàgines
...a waking or of a sleeping vision, is described as a favour very liberally bestowed on all ranks of the faithful, .on women as on elders, on boys as well as upon bishops. When their devout minds were sufficiently prepared by a course of prayer, of fasting, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pàgines
...a waking or of a sleeping vision, is described as a favor very liberally bestowed, on all ranks of the faithful, on women as on elders, on boys as well as upon bishops. When their devout minds were sufficiently prepared by a course of prayer, of fasting, and... | |
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... very liberally bestowed on all ranks of the faithful, on women as on elders, on boys as well as upon bishops. When their devout minds were sufficiently prepared by a course of prayer, of fasting, and of vigils, to receive the extraordinary impulse,... 
