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featnld 6 t ^ r ^ nAil 9 ttk ' ^ fate Dr . Roberts , of IStofr . •« See , where the turban'd Caliph o ' er the fields pf fertile Syria spreads widc-wasiing war And famine : nor can groves of raVag'd
palm , Olives and figs , nor desolated vines , That crown'd the brink of Pharpnar , lucid stream , Not widow ' s piercing shrieks , nor or- *
phan ' s tear , ^ fVfelt his obdurate soul : for not the lust Of frantic power , or empire unconfin'd * But burning zeal , and hope of future bliss Arm him with tenfold fury . On he gots ^ Till vanquish'd millions glut his
righteous rage ; Then weeps all prostrate 6 ' er Moham med ' s tomb , While vitt ' iy washes from her savage hands The blood of slaughter ed hosts . "
But our pr ^ cher ' was confined ivi ' thin the verge of Chrisferidbni , and perhaps had in Ms feqoliectioh . the miraculous vision said to have teen vouchsafed to the first Christian emperoiv accompanied with &n assurance that u-ndtef such a
standard he should conquer . Nor can we forget , in tkis CQqtfj |^ 6 to , Peter the hermit , and his motley train of prints , peers * and plebeians , who , taking the . cross at the sound of his ghostly toqsih , " Nimbly briishMlhc level b& Bound for holy Palestine ; " ' ? "where , all-reeking with infidel
blood , they devoutly proceeded "On , Calvary ' s top To Adore their suffering X . ord ;" a transactipii which the historian
of " the lifeline and Fall of the Roman Empire * ' could not fail to record : he has thus prerented the extraordinary . scene with his usual powers of
description * 1 *« A blood y / sacrifice was offered by his mistaken votaries to the jOtfd of tfie Christians-, resistance rnig % t provoke , tut ; neither age nor , ftSx , coyld mollify , th ^ ir lagcipl ^ abje rag ; they : ynjlul ^ ed tKem& « lvc « three daya m promiscuou *
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massacre ; aird the infection of t ] h * d « td bodies produced : an cpi ^ tai ^ al Jig *^^ . After seventy thousand A ^ osl « ms had been put to the sword , and the harmless Jews-had been burnt in their synagogue ,
tfiey could still reserve a multitude of captives , whom interest or lassitude persuaded them to spare . —* fhe hiTy sepnlxhtt : was now free , and . tws bioodyiWitors prepared to accomplish their vow . Bareheaded and barefoot , with contrite
hearts . a * n * i in an humble f > 6 sture ^ they ascended the hill of XTa ^ varJr ^ Srrfidst the loud anthems of the clergy ; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of tfecfiworld ; and bedewed with' tears of
joy and penitence the monument of their redemption . " ( Gibbon 4 to . vi . 60 , 61 . ) We 3 * re on this subject also reminded of the Christian conquests ofMexafco and Peru . D «? Solis ,
tqe Spanish historian Of the firmer , &sstare $ us ( b ^ I . Mclj- % &L ) that , © a the landing iof his country men >; iC Corfces , in whose ? s | an 4-ard was the ensign of Am , ^<^ js *
ordered an altar to , be s ^ t . up , w wMch , when adqinq ^ he . tpjacfcjd the image of Ihes Ifirgifi Mfttyf and at the eatraiice » a g < r 0 ^ t woss , in order to celebrate Ea&tei * ; . for
religion was always ; feis prin ^ ip ^ l cafev and in that , h ^ was equally zealous with the pri ^ stS ; " Pi ^ aJ ^ o was ailotlrer Christian conqlieror . Ufei&n his entrance littoPcru / is ib& scene i * well-portirayed in jtjts if Account of European S ^ tl ^ mints ' ' ascribed to Burke - c < the * *»~*~ J BM % k # ; MCJV M M MVVI > V M-J V « A IVVl . V 1 IU
first person who addressed Jiiifti&ielf to the incn w ^ s father yitipent , a friar ; h ^ advanceil with a GT 9 % * ' ; n his hand , and . began' ^ t i d ^ coiitse upon the birth arjid miracles ^ f C&i 7 ^ t ^^ h oriing him to ftffi < j $ e a Cibjrteti&n , on th ^ pain pf eterail punishment- ^ ( 1 ^ ISA . ) ^ .
There is much 6 f " the potffp md xcivcpitisfaticQ ot 00 ?\ a $ x * wkjP ? j and of tjtie Christfotv piety of warriors ^ which a ^ rv the first yjew would appear to illustrate this
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J 22 The Triumpft * of the Cross .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/2/
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