 | Edward Lewes Cutts - Great Britain - 1895 - 258 pages
...and spontaneous, for Bede expressly says that the King " had learned from his instructors and guides to salvation that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion." But throughout the history of the English conversion we find the people ready to follow... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - Scots-Irish - 1902 - 648 pages
...believers, as to his fellow citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury,... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 498 pages
...believers, as to his fellow citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury,... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - England - 1907 - 488 pages
...citizens in the kingdom of Heaven. For he had learned from those who had instructed him and guided him to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence suited to their degree... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Middle Ages - 1907 - 520 pages
...to his fellow-citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and guides to salvation that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury,... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1912 - 398 pages
...believers, as to his fellow citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learnt from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury,... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1915 - 484 pages
...believers, as to his fellow citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury,... | |
 | Allen Rogers Benham - English literature - 1916 - 674 pages
...believers, as to his fellow-citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury,... | |
 | Hutton Webster - History, Modern - 1917 - 408 pages
...believers, as to his fellow-citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and leaders to salvation that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. It was not long before he gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Christian biography - 1922 - 364 pages
...p. 48, who says of Ethelbert: 'For he had learned from those who had instructed him and guided him to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion.' Cf. also White Doe 872-3. 3.8 1-14 Wordsworth, note on 1.11: 'Upon the acquittal of the... | |
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Christianity, but only showed more affection to the believers, as to his fellow-citizens in the heavenly kingdom. For he had learned from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion. 
