Strange things are done in the heat and hurry of minds in so agitating a crisis, and I fear Gilfillan is of a sect which has suffered persecution without learning mercy.
But notwithstanding that the Presbyterians had the persecution in Charles II and his brother's time to exasperate them, there was little mischief done beyond the kind of petty violence mentioned in the text.
The last great imperial persecution of the Christians under Diocletian and Galerius, which was aimed at the entire uprooting of the new religion, ended with the edict of toleration of 311 and the tragical ruin of the persecutors.
At the same time the church buildings and property confiscated in the Diocletian persecution were ordered to be restored, and private property-owners to be indemnified from the imperial treasury.
Persecution after this languished for a while, but in 1819 were passed those stringent measures which are known as the Six Acts.
He was the chief instrument for raising the church from the low estate of oppression and persecution to well-deserved honor and power.
Maximin, who kept up thepersecution in the East, even after the toleration edict, as long as he could, died likewise a violent death by poison, in 313.
His father before him held a favorable opinion of the Christians as peaceable and honorable citizens, and protected them in the West during the Diocletian persecution in the East.
And the fact must be insisted upon, that all religion, in its very nature, makes for persecution and oppression.
Nor must it be supposed that the persecution and the slaughter of "Heretics" and "Infidels" was the exception.
After two thousand years of foolish and wicked persecution of good men, the True Believer remains faithful to the tradition that it "ought to be an unpleasant thing" to expose the errors of the Church.
Hungary, however, carried his persecution of the evangelicals even into this territory, which was continued after his death by Zapolya.
But when the persecution of the Huguenots was continued in numberless executions, before the year was out they had again, for the third time, to have recourse to arms.
Christianity, and set on foot a terriblepersecution of Christians and Germans.
The same applies to the Austrian Waldensians, of whosepersecution in A.
As he gave effect to his views in his =official= position, he incurred the hatred and persecution of the inmates of his convent to such an extent, that they laid a plot to murder him in A.
The persecution of the Protestants by fire and sword now began afresh.
Amid the severity of persecution and oppression Puritanism continued to grow, and in A.
Danish reformer =Hans Tausen=, a disciple of Luther, who had preached the gospel amid much persecution since A.
Unweariedly devoted to spreading the gospel in the various cities of Italy, he was repeatedly subjected by the persecution of the Inquisition to severe imprisonment, but always managed to escape in almost a miraculous way.
One of the last victims of thispersecution was Aonio Paleario.
The protection of powerful friends saved him from the persecution of the Inquisition.
Suspicion and persecutionare weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish together.
It is impossible to have a more striking proof of the violent and searching nature of the persecution under Paul IV.
If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty.
And since now the persecution carried on by my sons was greater and more incessant than that which I formerly suffered at the hands of my brethren, I returned frequently to the nuns, fleeing the rage of the tempest as to a haven of peace.
Nay, the persecution carried on by my sons rages against me more perilously and continuously than that of my open enemies, for my sons I have always with me, and I am ever exposed to their treacheries.
Secretly my rivals complained and lamented one to another, saying: "Behold now, the whole world runs after him, and our persecution of him has done nought save to increase his glory.
The more obvious this rancour became, the more it redounded to my honour, and his persecution did nought save to make me more famous.
When the hilarity had been somewhat checked, Hickey returned to the persecution of the blushing Turkey.
During the next few days a few minor skirmishes ensued which showed only too clearly to Hickey, the implacable persecution he must expect from Tabby.
Hence date the persecution and the pain, That man inflicts on all inferior kinds, Regardless of their plaints.
The more important a reform also, that is to say, the more it is opposed to the rule of the powers of darkness, the more bitter the persecution is likely to be which meets it at every step.
Witness the fierce opposition to the spread of Christianity in the early centuries and the persecution which has almost always followed its introduction into a new, neglected region.
Tis true they have the envy and curses of the old and ugly of both sexes, and a general persecution from all old women; but this is no more than all reformations must expect in their beginning.
Pious frauds are avowedly permitted, and persecution applauded: these maxims cannot be dictated by the spirit of peace, which is so warmly preached in the Gospel.
I am afraid you may think some imprudent behaviour of mine has occasioned all this ridiculous persecution [by the Resident]" she wrote to them in May, 1758.
Lady Hervey and Mrs. Murray were active partisans of Lord Grange in his persecution of Lady Mary, and aided him in his attempts to get possession of her sister, Lady Mar.
I am afraid to place my whole stock in the shop, owing to the continual persecution to which I am subjected, notwithstanding I enjoy powerful protection.
You will have heard how gallantly Sir George Villiers has taken my part, and how he has made a national question of the persecution of which I have been the object, and which lately reached its climax.
They abjured war under all circumstances, and suffered great persecutionrather than pay military taxes.
Poverty and persecution had broken down his spirits, and when he was discharged from prison he left Baltimore and tried to obtain a situation as clerk in Philadelphia.
It would not be easy to give an adequate idea of the storm of persecution that followed.
Persecution cannot bow the head, which seventy winters could not blanch, nor the terrors of excommunication chill the heart, in which age could not freeze the kindly flow of warm philanthropy.
He held the view that no monk should keep slaves, and condemned the persecution of the Paulicians, urging that they who are ignorant and out of the way should be instructed, not persecuted.
It is tormented by the sense of separation and alienation--alienation from other people, and persecution by all the great powers and forces of the universe; and it is pursued by a sense of its own doom.
Every decree of spoliation or persecution loses some of its force in their hands.
The Thermidorians remain equally as anti-Catholic as their predecessors; only, they disavow open persecution and rely on slow pressure.
The systematicpersecution of talented persons was organized.
In other words, the money I do not owe it, and of which it robs me, pays for the persecution which it inflicts upon me; I am reduced to paying out of my own purse the wages of my inquisitors, my jailer and my executioner.
Thenceforth, and spontaneously, his malady runs its own course and becomes complex; to the ambitious delirium comes the persecution mania.
And as his persecution by my scholars had left a balance of consideration in his favor, I sent him a warm note of thanks, and said nothing of my discovery.
Indignant, but believing that the unfortunate man was still in fear of persecution from the mischievous urchins whom I had evidently just interrupted, I put down my pen and went over to him.
The kindly Chinese often took upon themselves to hide Germans, in hard cases, from the merciless persecution of the Allies; otherwise, the miseries inflicted would have been much greater.
The persecution of Christians, though it was ruthless and exceedingly cruel, was due, not to religious intolerance, but solely to political motives.
A celebrated freethinker, who indulged in bold and independent speculations, and suffered much persecution for his ridicule of the Homeric deities.
Also, that the persecution of my poor friend is to remain a secret from the Greeks.
But the Jews, with the help of women of high rank and the leading men in the city, started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them from the city.
So he told me, "These are the people who have come through the great persecution and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
During the reigns of the succeeding shoguns a violent persecution began.
One of the methods pursued in the propagation of Christianity had never been adopted by the Buddhists, that of persecution of alien faiths.
In consequence the persecutionof the Christians grew more severe.
In 1637 these excesses of persecution led to an insurrection, the native Christians rising in thousands, seizing an old castle at Shimabara, and openly defying their persecutors.
Some time ago signs began to appear of a general feeling that the persecution of the Babis must cease.
Who had urged on the persecution of the seven Bishops more fiercely than Lobb?
Indeed, while James was loudly boasting that he had passed an Act granting entire liberty of conscience to all sects, a persecution as cruel as that of Languedoc was raging through all the provinces which owned his authority.
It is true that the Toleration Act recognised persecution as the rule, and granted liberty of conscience only as the exception.
