History of the Christian Church, Volume 4T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1894 - Church history |
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... body were not notoriously corrupt , but instances of scandal were uncomfortably frequent , and non - residence and pluralities were abuses too common to be generally regarded as scandalous . In fashionable and political life there was ...
... body were not notoriously corrupt , but instances of scandal were uncomfortably frequent , and non - residence and pluralities were abuses too common to be generally regarded as scandalous . In fashionable and political life there was ...
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... body . Men and women fell down in swoons or convulsive agitations . Some in the very midst of their protests against such unseemly and needless disorders , as they called them , were seized with the overmastering impulse , and fell down ...
... body . Men and women fell down in swoons or convulsive agitations . Some in the very midst of their protests against such unseemly and needless disorders , as they called them , were seized with the overmastering impulse , and fell down ...
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... body as well as the soul , during the present laws of vital union , - should interrupt or dis- turb the ordinary circulations , and put nature out of its course . Yea , we may question whether , while this union subsists , it be ...
... body as well as the soul , during the present laws of vital union , - should interrupt or dis- turb the ordinary circulations , and put nature out of its course . Yea , we may question whether , while this union subsists , it be ...
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... body of presbyters , is not a simple presbyter . He exercises functions gener- ally associated with the episcopal office , and to all practical intents is a bishop . A superintendent of this kind Wesley plainly meant to provide . The ...
... body of presbyters , is not a simple presbyter . He exercises functions gener- ally associated with the episcopal office , and to all practical intents is a bishop . A superintendent of this kind Wesley plainly meant to provide . The ...
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... body . The report for 1790 announces 134,549 Methodist members , of whom 57,631 belonged to America . Among the British Methodists a question of engrossing interest immedi- ately after Wesley's death was naturally their relation to the ...
... body . The report for 1790 announces 134,549 Methodist members , of whom 57,631 belonged to America . Among the British Methodists a question of engrossing interest immedi- ately after Wesley's death was naturally their relation to the ...
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Page 216 - England, said. *We will not say, as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon ! Farewell, Rome ! But we will say Farewell, dear England ! Farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there.
Page 267 - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
Page 201 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 27 - The much greater part of those who come to be ordained are ignorant to a degree not to be apprehended by those who are not obliged to know it.
Page 229 - It is the will and command of God that, since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus, a permission of the most Paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or anti-Christian consciences and worships be granted to all men in all nations and countries...
Page 29 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point, among all people of discernment...
Page 56 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
Page 145 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 240 - ... the town seemed to be full of the presence of God : it never was so full of love, nor so full of joy, and yet so full of distress as it was then.
Page 120 - Has the Pope, or Cardinals, or any body of men, or any individual of the Church of Rome, any civil authority, power, jurisdiction, or pre-eminence, whatsoever, within the realm of England ? 2.