...in the lowest depths of degradation — a sect charged with heresy and sedition — a sect accounted as " the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things" — and this disreputable character was not limited to one city or country ; but it was " a sect every...

...will the lost souls with whom I have trifled, view me at the last day ! O my God, rather let me be as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things, than by conformity to the world be instrumental to their ruin ! 25. Breakfasted with the general ;...

...in view, they must have found themselves sadly mistaken, since as they themselves declare, they were as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things. Their aim besides could not be to get riches, like mercenary teachers. They were poor, and would take...

...World concerning it — " a pernicious superstition *," — " We are made," said the apostle Paul, " as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things f." Such being the light in which the Christian Religion and the professors of it were generally regarded,...

...will the lost souls with whom I have trifled, view me at the last day ! O my God, rather let me be as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things, than by conformity to the world be instrumental to their ruin ! 25. Breakfasted with the general ;...

...a Christian for his supposed evil printriples; and did condemn them all, apostles and their flocks, as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things. And if this was the case in the purest age, what else can be expected in succeeding ages ? But you...

...proceed to narrate the history of their persecutions from the hands of the papal party, who treated them as " the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things ;" and this will furnish us with a clew to the import of the prophetic intimations contained in Rev....

...a Christian for his supposed evil principles; and did condemn them all, apostles and their flocks, as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things. And if this was the case in the purest age, what else can be expected in succeeding ages ? But you...

...hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being defamed, we entreat; we are made as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things unto this day." " But blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies,...

...Christians, we should not be ashamed, but glorify thee on this behalf. And thine apostles, who were made as the filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things, rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus. Though therefore I pass...