The Socinian academy at Racow which drew to itself several proselytes from other countries, acquired considerable importance in theological literature after the beginning of the century.
His philosophy made no very deep impression; it was too fanciful, too arbitrary, too much tinctured with marks of an imagination rendered morbid by solitude, to gain many proselytes in an age that was advancing in severe science.
But, in these eighty years since the publication of the treatise of Copernicus, his proselytes had been surprisingly few.
Father Seraphin, through his character and piety of manner, had made friends of all these children of nature, and converted numerous proselytes in various tribes, especially in Unicorn's.
These Barbarian proselytes displayed an ardent and successful zeal in the propagation of the faith.
The temper and understanding of the new proselytes were not adapted to metaphysical subtilties; but they strenuously maintained, what they had piously received, as the pure and genuine doctrines of Christianity.
They insinuated themselves into noble and opulent families; and the specious arts of flattery and seduction were employed to secure those proselytes who might bestow wealth or dignity on the monastic profession.
Among those recently brought over to the true faith as full proselytes were Helena, the queen of Adiabene, a kingdom situate in Mesopotamia, and her son Izates, who built themselves splendid palaces at Jerusalem.
It has been suggested, and it is likely, that the chief historical work of Josephus was written primarily for a group of fashionable proselytes to Judaism, to whom he ministered.
When proselyteswere taken into the church, care was taken to exorcise all evil spirits.
Offering to proselytes an unlimited number of demoniacal æons, similar in individuality and prowess to those peopling the invisible universe, Northern mythology readily united with Christian demonology.
These are almost without exceptionproselytes from other churches.
Among the proselytes of Christianity, there are many who judged it imprudent to precipitate a salutary rite, which could not be repeated; to throw away an inestimable privilege, which could never be recovered.
Nor was the peace of the church interrupted, till the increasing numbers of proselytes seem at length to have attracted the attention, and to have alienated the mind of Severus.
The slow and gradual abolition of the Mosaic ceremonies afforded a safe and innocent disguise to the more early proselytes of the gospel.
If you fear the anger of Caesar because you have abandoned your former religion, and made proselytes also of others, you have this to plead, that your acting thus proceeded not from inconstancy, but judgment.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was promptly in the field, with its diligent missionaries and its ignoble policy of doing the work of Christ and humanity with a shrewd eye to the main chance of making proselytes to its party.
Mr. Muirson, who has come from the established church of England to make proselytes from the established churches of Connecticut.
The Propagation Society's missionaries boasted, with reason, of large accessions of proselytes alienated from other churches by their distaste for the methods of the revival.
To make proselytes is the natural ambition of every one.
There are proselytes from atheism, but none from superstition.
But it is certain, that before 1743, it had become universal, and that the Lodges of Free Masons had become the places for making proselytes to every strange and obnoxious doctrine.
The desire of making proselytes is natural to all serious professors of a rational faith, and was frequently exercised.
The desire of making proselytes is in every breast--and it is whetted by the restraints of society.
At the same time as these conversions, so important by reason of the proselytes ranking highly, we must not forget one more humble, but most touching: that of Mohammad's nurse.
One of them, having Mr. Quilliam at his head, exists for several years past at Liverpool, and is remarkable for the fact that the majority of its proselytesbelong to the weaker sex.
It is admitted to have existed before the Christian æra; and to have been employed by the Jews on the admission of proselytes to their religion.
At all events, a ceremony thus taken up must be presumed to retain its acquired sense and its established extent of application: and if so, baptism must be strictly limited to the admission of proselytes from other faiths.
He may, like Raleigh, "in his prison hours enrich the world," and add new proselytes to the cause of freedom.
He distributed Bibles and blankets, prayer-books and porridge, and three of his best and most hopeful proselytes went mad, and were sent to the county lunatic asylum.
Others then said, Protestants would be all praying for proselytes to their own persuasions, for they were all in good faith, and thought themselves in the truth.
Besides, it is certain, that men who profess to have no religion, are full as zealous to bring over proselytes as any Papist or fanatic can be.
The place was as safe for the new proselytes as it was convenient and agreeable.
These miracles induced the ship's crew to abandon idolatry, and they all became pious proselytes in Jerusalem.
All the heathen who saw and heard exclaimed: "There is no God like unto the God of Israel, there is no nation like unto the nation of Israel; the wrong inflicted upon wretched proselytes has been expiated by the sons of kings.
With these they marched to Jerusalem, and became proselytes there.
In hunting proselytes among the followers of Islam it is not advisable to rely too much on the Scriptures, as Moslems doubt the authenticity of our version and point to our own divergent copies in proof thereof.
We can leave England for our Eastern tour with the conclusion that Islam is welcome to any proselytes it makes there, but that the gravest slur on Christian prestige is cast by our own conduct.
Schürer in his history of the Jewish people[53] devotes several pages to giving reasons for believing that the Jews baptized proselyteslong before the coming of Christ.
They also were Jewish proselytesand not full Gentiles.
Cruden says: Naaman, Cornelius and the Eunuch were all proselytes of the gate and not full Gentiles.
He accused them of consulting only their own interest, and of employing their proselytes as a means of laying up wealth for themselves, with which, when acquired, they return to Spain.
The wildest of them may compare not unfavorably with those Northern barbarian hordes that swooped down upon Christian Europe, and who were so soon the docile pupils and proselytes of the peoples they had conquered.
When Hassan left Isfahan, in the year 1078, the khalif Mostanser, a man of some energy, occupied the throne of Egypt, and considerable exertions were made by the missionaries of the society at Cairo to gain proselytes throughout Asia.
Leaving that city he entered Persia, traversed the province of Khuzistan, and, visiting the cities of Isfahan and Yezd, went on to the eastern province of Kerman, everywhere making proselytes to his opinions.
The Dais might exert themselves, and proselytes might be gained; but till possession was obtained of some strongholds, and a mode of striking terror into princes devised, nothing effectual could be achieved.
As it was, in spite of discouraging conditions, many would-be proselytes knocked at the doors of the Synagogue.
Proselytes came in sufficient numbers to make the subject an important theme of discussion in the Jewish Academy.
In their fervor to make proselytes to the Law of Moses, they resorted to a strange expedient.
The assumption that Jews discourage proselytes has been refuted in chaps.
This school, also unlike Hillel's, opposed the admission of proselytes from the heathen.
So although the injunctions against proselytes were removed during the sixteen months of Nerva's rule as soon as Trajan came to the throne many anti-Jewish laws were restored.
The number of female proselytes in Damascus, Asia Minor, Egypt and Rome steadily grew.
The Emperor Domitian made severe laws against proselytes to Judaism, in order to discourage the practice.
One of the most famous proselytes was Aquila, a Greek of scholarship and wealth.
He forbade intermarriage and imposed the penalty of death on Jews who made proselytes of Christian slaves.
In this way many of the Gentile proselytesto Judaism in Alexandria and Asia Minor went over to the new creed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proselytes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
