...chearfully laid down their Li-es for the Truth, to that Degree, that it became a common Obfervarion, that the Blood of the Martyrs was the Seed of the Church. And ' as to Believers themfelves, it muft needs be a great Confirmation of their Faith, and contribute...

...Confideration we now combat the Obftinacy of Unbelievers ; and it is upon this account principally, that the Blood of the Martyrs was the Seed of the Church. No Wonder then, that the Supreme Being, merciful as he is, mould yet permit his moil faithful Servants...

...persecution* could not prevent the growth of Popery : before their time, it was a maxim established, that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. Be it as it may, we shalt jitst observe, that the Catholics, now ground into dust, deprived ot education...

...craving the severe execution of the laws against catholics. His answer was gracious and condescending ; w though he declared against persecution, as being an...to represent a middle course as the most humane and the most politic. He went so far as even to affirm, with an oath, that he never had entertained any...

...; it was indeed " the seed of the church."" And, blessed * It was a proverb in the primitive times, that " The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church ;" but never could it be applied with 10 much propriety as to the blood of Christ. VOL. I. 62 be God,...

...deserved the name of liberators. It had been said that Christianity and slavery were incompatible, and that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church ; so the sufferings of the missionaries, tinder God's blessing, would produce the emancipation of the...

...produced an effect the very reverse of what he purposed ; and he seems to have discovered the truth of the maxim that " the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." In his private character, Gardiner is entitled to some respect, not from its morality, for he is said...

...the rest of the community ; by which they would become lessinicnsely catholic. It was an old adage, that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church ; and so every kind of persecution (and all religious disabilities come under this head) had a tendency...

...influenced by prejudice in his judgment concerning the Christians. It has been often said, and very truly, that ' the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. And some early believers have themselves assured us, that b they were led to inquire into the principles...

...persecutions could not prevent the growth cjf Popery; for before their time it was a maxim established that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church. Be it as it may, we shall just observe, that the Catholics, now ground into dust, deprived of education...