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That war with Britain, during the continuance of the passionate and almost idolatrous devotion of a great majority of the people to the French republic, would throw America so completely into the arms of France as to leave her no longer mistress of her own conduct, was not the only fear which the temper of the day suggested.
In more than one instance he was enabled to give up for Christ's sake an earthly attachment that was idolatrous, because it was a hindrance to his full obedience and single-eyed loyalty to his heavenly Master. Then his taking counsel of God.
I give ye my word, an affair of honour." "How came you by that there horse?" said the baker. "How came you by these here fifteen guineas?" said the landlord, in whose hands, by some process, five of the gold pieces had disappeared. "What is this here idolatrous string of beads?" said the clerk. Mr.
The benighted inhabitants of Italy, a land, lost in the darkness of error, still persist in their fasts, notwithstanding the evident folly of their ways and the Norwegian sailors provide them with large quantities of fish for their idolatrous customs, bringing back their wines in exchange."
Kennedy still cherished for his crippled boy a love almost idolatrous, he spared neither money nor pains to procure for him everything necessary for his favorite pursuit.
But an idolatrous nation could not receive that boon; and the Roman sway affected very slightly the African and Asiatic nations, whatever its pretensions may have been.
He is religious after a sort, but wavers in his faith, sometimes acknowledging the God of the Jews as the only real deity, sometimes relapsing into an idolatrous worship, and forcing all his subjects to follow his example. Even then, however, his polytheism is of a kind which admits of a special devotion to a particular deity, who is called emphatically "his god."
They forget, or will not remember, that human sacrifices, and the power of an idolatrous priesthood a system of profligacy unparalleled in any other part of the world infanticide a consequence of that system bloody wars, where the conquerors spared neither women nor children that all these have been abolished; and that dishonesty, intemperance, and licentiousness have been greatly reduced by the introduction of Christianity.
The gambler was a man of so many and diverse peculiarities that it would be an impossibility to catalogue them with any degree of satisfactoriness. But, with the exception of his wholesale piratical methods at cards indeed, at any kind of gambling perhaps his most striking feature was his almost idolatrous worship for his horses.
After his arrival in Scotland, he wrote to his Dieppe congregation, upbraiding them for their Laodicean laxity in permitting idolatry to co-exist with true religion in their town. Why did they not drive out the idolatrous worship? These epistles were intercepted by the Governor of Dieppe, and their contents appear to have escaped the notice of the Reformer's biographers.
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