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Title: The hand of God in history, or, Divine providence illustrated in the extension and establishment of Christianity throughout the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Read, Hollis, 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John E. Potter & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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nd was in-finitely worse than that of his body. Before he sunkinto delirium he acknowledged that it was the Handof the Almighty that had crushed him. Like Ilerod,like Philip II. of Spain, he felt in his bitter end thequenchless fire and the never-dying worm. Philip of Spain was a notorious persecutor. Hethought, by the terrific scourge of war, utterly to ox-terminate Protestantism both in England and Germa-ny; and, by such agents as the Duke of Alva, heseemed for a time likely to accomplish his purpose.But the retributive Hand cut short his mad career.He was made to drink to the dregs the cup of trem-bling. He died a miserable and loathsome death.His flesh consumed away on his bones. The Romish Bishop Gardiner, of unenviable fame inthe annals of Papal persecutions, had sworn that hewould not eat till he had heard that the two piousProtestant bishops Latimer and Ridley were burned,they being already under sentence of death as martyrsfor the truth. He usually dined at twelve, but on the
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