The Valiant Man

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Excerpt from The Valiant Man: A Discourse on the Death of the Hon. Samuel Wilkeson of Buffalo Nor did the Gentiles need a new term to express the boldness with which the primitive Christians were exhorted to defend the faith once delivered to the saints, to obey God rather than men, to fear no face of clay, no arm of flesh, and when the early martyrs refused to offer incense before the image of the emperor of Rome, when they declined to render to the imperial Cæsars the homage which was due only to God, when the gray headed senator, the rough soldier, the tender and delicate female and the child of years, who had been instructed in the things of the Kingdom of heaven, endured scorn and scourging and "were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain by the sword, " nay, were clad in the skins of beasts, worried and torn by dogs, and cast, mangled and bleeding, into the fires, for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, they needed no other term than virtue or courage to express the idea suggested by a heroism of which they knew no precedent and had seen no example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.