Primitive Truth and Order Vindicated from Modern Misrepresentation, with a Defence of Episcopacy, Particularly that of Scotland, Against an Attack Made on it |
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... Divine Author , " the fame yesterday , to - day , and for ever , " ought to be received and embraced , just as it is represented and held out in the fcriptures of truth , " without adding thereto , or diminishing from it ...
... Divine Author , " the fame yesterday , to - day , and for ever , " ought to be received and embraced , just as it is represented and held out in the fcriptures of truth , " without adding thereto , or diminishing from it ...
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... divine goodness as are too often exhibited in other parts of the world . But be- fore we allow ourselves to be carried away by any fuch fuperficial and flattering comparison , we shall do well to confider , whether this moral ...
... divine goodness as are too often exhibited in other parts of the world . But be- fore we allow ourselves to be carried away by any fuch fuperficial and flattering comparison , we shall do well to confider , whether this moral ...
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John Skinner (Bp. of Aberdeen). benefit of divine revelation , I am afraid , that in the contempt , or abuse of its precious truths , as much guilt and depravity will be found here , in proportion to our numbers , as in the other parts ...
John Skinner (Bp. of Aberdeen). benefit of divine revelation , I am afraid , that in the contempt , or abuse of its precious truths , as much guilt and depravity will be found here , in proportion to our numbers , as in the other parts ...
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... divine appointment ? Yet all this may be justly laid to the charge of those wild enthusiasts , who full of the affurance of faith , and the inward experience of a felf - confident mind , enroll them- felves among the elect of God ; and ...
... divine appointment ? Yet all this may be justly laid to the charge of those wild enthusiasts , who full of the affurance of faith , and the inward experience of a felf - confident mind , enroll them- felves among the elect of God ; and ...
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... divine eloquence now as it did formerly , to " put the Sadducees to " filence . " But though it were poffible , ( and with God it cannot be impoffible ) to check the licentious rail- ings of these bold difputers , who even deny the Lord ...
... divine eloquence now as it did formerly , to " put the Sadducees to " filence . " But though it were poffible , ( and with God it cannot be impoffible ) to check the licentious rail- ings of these bold difputers , who even deny the Lord ...
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Page 194 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 294 - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
Page 226 - For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office; if by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Page 46 - And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac.
Page 225 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 434 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Page 190 - Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Page 502 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost...
Page 495 - They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 65 - The Old Testament is not contrary to the New : for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ; who is the only Mediator between God and man, being both God and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises.