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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 5; Original Published by: H.G. Bohn in 1851 in 508 pages; Subjects: Church history; History / General; History / United States / General; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christian Church / History; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1850Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: The situation of the Christians continued to be the same under the government of the insane Caracalla, although the cruel emperor did not himself set on foot any new persecutions. Everything depended on the individual temper of the different governors. Many of them were active in devising expedients for saving, without open violation of the laws, the lives of those Christians who were arraigned before them. Others were furious, either from personal hatred, or from a wish to flatter the people. Others, again, were contented to proceed according to the letter of the law enacted by Trajan. Tertullian, in a letter to one of the persecutors of the Christians, the proconsul Scapula, remarks, that if he would use the sword against the Christians only according to the original laws, and as was still done by the governor of Mauritaniar and by the governor of Leon, in Spain, he might discharge every lawful duty of his office without resorting to cruelty. Trajan's law then was not always the governing rule.We will now adduce a few characteristic instances which will serve to illustrate the character of the persecutions of this time. f In the year 200, some Christians belonging to the city of Scillita, in Numidia, were brought before the tribunal of the proconsul Saturninus. He said to them, " You may obtain pardon of our emperors (Severus and Caracalla) if you will return in good earnest to our gods." One of them, Speratus, replied, " We have injured no man; we have Tertullian relates that a prases even went so far as to furnish the Christians with the means of so answering the questions of the judge as to en... ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 9, pt. 1; Original Publisher: Henry G. Bohn; Publication date: 1858; Subjects: Church history; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Christian Church / History; ... Read more

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