The Life and Death of Jeanne D'Arc: Called the Maid, Volume 2

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Smith, Elder & Company, 1866 - 288 páginas

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Página 173 - Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone ; if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Página 218 - She smiled, and drew a circle : the secretary took her hand, and guided it to make a cross. The sentence of grace was a most severe one : — " Jehanne, we condemn you, out of our grace and moderation, to pass the rest of your days in prison, on the bread of grief and water of anguish, and so to mourn your sins.
Página 65 - Then she was stirred by a great emotion, and the tears sprang to her eyes and she spoke out as with strong conviction, saying: "I believe wholly — as wholly as I believe the Christian faith and that God has redeemed us from the fires of hell, that God speaks to me by that Voice!
Página 157 - They asked her if she prayed ; then in what words she prayed. Jeanne recited her secret prayer to God before the crowded court. " ' Very tender God, in honour of your holy passion, I pray you, if you love me, that you will reveal to me how I ought to answer these churchmen. I know well, as to this habit, the commandment why I took it, ~but I do not Jcnow in what manner I ought to leave it off. Be pleased, therefore, to teach me.' " ' And very soon they come,
Página 133 - Peter, has always been, and is, at present, by divine right, head of this church. 4. " That the canon of the Old and New Testament, as proposed to us by this church, is the word of God ; as also such traditions, belonging to faith and morals, which, being originally delivered by Christ to his apostles, have been preserved by constant succession.
Página 77 - I saw them with my bodily eyes as well as I see you ; and when they left me, I wept ; and I fain would have had them take me with them too.
Página 132 - I refer myself to God Who sent me, to Our Lady, and to all the Saints in Paradise. And in my opinion it is all one, God and the Church; and one should make no difficulty about it.
Página 132 - Guided by this certain criterion," they say, " we profess to believe, 1. "That Christ has established a church upon earth, and that this church is that which holds communion with the see of Rome, being one, holy, Catholic, and apostolical. 2. "That we are obliged to hear this Church ; and therefore that she is infallible, by the guidance of Almighty God, in her decisions regarding faith. 3. " That Saint Peter, by divine commission, was appointed the head of this church, under Christ its founder ;...
Página 248 - The end came at last in the market place of Rouen, when this young girl, whose name for years had been a terror to the whole English army, was dragged in her white shroud and bound to the stake, and saw the wood heaped up around her and the cruel fire lighted under her feet. "Brother Martin, standing almost in the draft of the flames, heard her sob with a last sublime effort of faith, bearing her witness to God whom she trusted : ' My voices have not deceived me !
Página 57 - ... time I heard it I was very much afraid. It was in my father's garden at noon in the summer. I had fasted the day before. The voice came from the right hand by the church, and there was a great light with it. When I came into France, I heard it frequently. I believe it was sent me from (Jod. After I heard it three times, I knew it was the voice of an angel. I understand perfectly what it says.

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