The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volume 5Houlston and Stonemen, 1854 - Great Britain |
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... dissenters of Ireland in attempting to rid themselves of this burden ? They dare not . The fact is , there is no great principle involved in their agitation . The movement is destitute of all value , either as regards principle or expe ...
... dissenters of Ireland in attempting to rid themselves of this burden ? They dare not . The fact is , there is no great principle involved in their agitation . The movement is destitute of all value , either as regards principle or expe ...
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... Dissenters jointly , on the under- be read , and clergymen of the Church have , if I standing that the Church prayers should always am not mistaken , in times past officiated there . The present minister , however , has introduced -not ...
... Dissenters jointly , on the under- be read , and clergymen of the Church have , if I standing that the Church prayers should always am not mistaken , in times past officiated there . The present minister , however , has introduced -not ...
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66 from Papal domination to Prelatic tyranny , | years ? Did one single Dissenter so act ? -a change which all our history since that No ; the clergy . Who were the most time clearly shows to be but a passing from generally hostile to ...
66 from Papal domination to Prelatic tyranny , | years ? Did one single Dissenter so act ? -a change which all our history since that No ; the clergy . Who were the most time clearly shows to be but a passing from generally hostile to ...
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... Dissenter or Nonconformist . This is a startling fact , and casts a prophetic shadow into the future , when such an anomaly shall cease , hiding itself in the oblivion of history . No one can gainsay these statements without misrepre ...
... Dissenter or Nonconformist . This is a startling fact , and casts a prophetic shadow into the future , when such an anomaly shall cease , hiding itself in the oblivion of history . No one can gainsay these statements without misrepre ...
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... dissenters . " * Let it be remembered that every true dissenter is a stone taken from the very foundation on which our State Church stands ; and that as Dissent pro- gresses , Episcopacy must inevitably decline , till she be no more ...
... dissenters . " * Let it be remembered that every true dissenter is a stone taken from the very foundation on which our State Church stands ; and that as Dissent pro- gresses , Episcopacy must inevitably decline , till she be no more ...
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Page 24 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
Page 175 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Page 361 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 422 - The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 219 - But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Page 369 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness ; he is proud, knowing nothing...
Page 151 - I AM old and blind! Men point at me as smitten by God's frown; Afflicted and deserted of my kind, Yet I am not cast down. I am weak, yet strong; I murmur not that I no longer see; Poor, old, and helpless, I the more belong, Father Supreme! to thee.
Page 283 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 166 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 356 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.