History of the Christian Church, Volume 4T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1894 - Church history |
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... heart by the direct agency of the Spirit , but probably intended to discredit revealed religion . Bolingbroke stands at the end of the great deistical era . Hume , who was known as a writer in the later years of Bolingbroke , in his ...
... heart by the direct agency of the Spirit , but probably intended to discredit revealed religion . Bolingbroke stands at the end of the great deistical era . Hume , who was known as a writer in the later years of Bolingbroke , in his ...
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... heart and con- science , was inadequately emphasized . Miracles were viewed too exclusively as mere supports of revelation , instead of being included among the means of revela- tion ; moreover , the supreme marvel of sacred history ...
... heart and con- science , was inadequately emphasized . Miracles were viewed too exclusively as mere supports of revelation , instead of being included among the means of revela- tion ; moreover , the supreme marvel of sacred history ...
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... heart and conscience with transforming effect . Reaction against the fervors of the commonwealth era had be- gotten a horror of anything approaching to enthusiasm . " Appeals both to authority and to the stronger pas- sions gradually ...
... heart and conscience with transforming effect . Reaction against the fervors of the commonwealth era had be- gotten a horror of anything approaching to enthusiasm . " Appeals both to authority and to the stronger pas- sions gradually ...
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... heart which had characterized his early childhood . At the same time he held to the form , and did not wholly lay ... heart was profoundly moved . Referring to impressions made by these works , he afterwards wrote : " I saw that giving ...
... heart which had characterized his early childhood . At the same time he held to the form , and did not wholly lay ... heart was profoundly moved . Referring to impressions made by these works , he afterwards wrote : " I saw that giving ...
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... heart after the pathway of spiritual life , while his speedy emancipa- tion from the same shows that it was not really agree- able to his mental constitution . No man was ever 1 Journal , Nov. , 1741 . 2 Letter to the Rev. Mr. Law . 3 ...
... heart after the pathway of spiritual life , while his speedy emancipa- tion from the same shows that it was not really agree- able to his mental constitution . No man was ever 1 Journal , Nov. , 1741 . 2 Letter to the Rev. Mr. Law . 3 ...
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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.