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... Principle , after shewing , as it was easy enough to do , that their system was neither unscriptural nor antiscriptural , had rested its positive defence not so much on individual texts , susceptible , as many think , of a different ...
... Principle , after shewing , as it was easy enough to do , that their system was neither unscriptural nor antiscriptural , had rested its positive defence not so much on individual texts , susceptible , as many think , of a different ...
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... principle had been admitted , that , if the Divine Author of our religion had willed only one form of Ecclesiastical Polity to be universally binding , it would have been laid down in the New Testament , with all the clearness of a ...
... principle had been admitted , that , if the Divine Author of our religion had willed only one form of Ecclesiastical Polity to be universally binding , it would have been laid down in the New Testament , with all the clearness of a ...
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... Principle has assumed Monarchical , the Aristocratical , and the Republican ; so , in the Church there have , in like manner , been three great forms , which Ecclesiastical power has taken the Episcopalian , the Presbyte- rian , and the ...
... Principle has assumed Monarchical , the Aristocratical , and the Republican ; so , in the Church there have , in like manner , been three great forms , which Ecclesiastical power has taken the Episcopalian , the Presbyte- rian , and the ...
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... principle of the Veto had been embodied there - if , in short , any one definite rule had been laid down as to the election of pastors , or , which is the same thing , if there could have been proved to be an uniformity of practice ...
... principle of the Veto had been embodied there - if , in short , any one definite rule had been laid down as to the election of pastors , or , which is the same thing , if there could have been proved to be an uniformity of practice ...
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... principle , the proposed society or church - for this seems to us its real character - should rest ? And we do not wonder that this difficulty should have pressed itself with great force on the minds of persons , who , many of them ...
... principle , the proposed society or church - for this seems to us its real character - should rest ? And we do not wonder that this difficulty should have pressed itself with great force on the minds of persons , who , many of them ...
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Page 245 - There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when, ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Page 141 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 402 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 115 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. — But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 157 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 441 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit...
Page 192 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 245 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 244 - There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Page 246 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.