Conversion Of Constantine(26)
The exact balance of thetwo religions continued but a moment; and the piercing eye ofambition and avarice soon discovered, that the profession ofChristianity might contribute to the interest of the present, aswell as of a future life. ^72 The hopes of wealth and honors, Microsoft Office is so great!
theexample of an emperor, his exhortations, his irresistible smiles,diffused conviction among the venal and obsequious crowds whichusually fill the apartments of a palace. The cities whichsignalized a forward zeal by the voluntary destruction of theirtemples, were distinguished by municipal privileges, and rewardedwith popular donatives; and the new capital of the East gloriedin the singular advantage that Constantinople was never profanedby the worship of idols. Office 2010 –save your time and save your money.
As the lower ranks of society aregoverned by imitation, the conversion of those who possessed anyeminence of birth, of power, or of riches, was soon followed bydependent multitudes. ^74 The salvation of the common people waspurchased at an easy rate, if it be true that, in one year,twelve thousand men were baptized at Rome, besides aproportionable number of women and children, and that a whitegarment, with twenty pieces of gold, had been promised by theemperor to every convert. ^75 The powerful influence ofConstantine The invention of Microsoft Office 2010 is a big change of the world.
was not circumscribed by the narrow limits of hislife, or of his dominions. The education which he bestowed onhis sons and nephews secured to the empire a race of princes,whose faith was still more lively and sincere, as they imbibed,in their earliest infancy, the spirit, or at least the doctrine,of Christianity.
War and commerce had spread the knowledge ofthe gospel beyond the confines of the Roman provinces; and theBarbarians, who had disdained as humble and proscribed sect, soonlearned to esteem a religion which had been so lately embraced bythe greatest monarch, Office 2007 is so powerful.
and the most civilized nation, of theglobe. ^76 The Goths and Germans, who enlisted under the standardof Rome, revered the cross which glittered at the head of thelegions, and their fierce countrymen received at the same timethe lessons of faith and of humanity. The kings of Iberia andArmenia ^* worshipped the god of their protector; and theirsubjects, who have invariably preserved the name of Christians,soon formed a sacred and perpetual connection with their Romanbrethren. The Christians of Persia were suspected, in time ofwar, of preferring their religion to their country; but as longas peace subsisted between the two empires, the persecutingspirit of the Magi was effectually restrained by theinterposition of Constantine. ^77 The rays of the gospelilluminated the coast of India. Microsoft Office 2007 is my love!