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... Persons from the Lord's Table , Selden's Argument on that Subject , Whitelocke's Argument , Remarks on these Arguments , Ordinance about Suspension , & c . - Erastian Clause , Petitions from London and the City Ministers , Ordinance for ...
... Persons from the Lord's Table , Selden's Argument on that Subject , Whitelocke's Argument , Remarks on these Arguments , Ordinance about Suspension , & c . - Erastian Clause , Petitions from London and the City Ministers , Ordinance for ...
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... person who has attention to the events of the seventeenth ce ther with regard to their civil or their relig has felt that it was impossible fully to under view the character of the Westminster Assembly , the purpose INTRODUCTORY ...
... person who has attention to the events of the seventeenth ce ther with regard to their civil or their relig has felt that it was impossible fully to under view the character of the Westminster Assembly , the purpose INTRODUCTORY ...
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... person , the most full and absolute power t imagined . And it rendered it at once a ma impossibility for the Church of England to own reformation according to the deliberate its most enlightened members , whatever mi opinion of the ...
... person , the most full and absolute power t imagined . And it rendered it at once a ma impossibility for the Church of England to own reformation according to the deliberate its most enlightened members , whatever mi opinion of the ...
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... persons to peruse them ; condemning , at the same time , the worship of images , and permitting the prayers to saints to be omitted . But while the reformers were rejoicing in this apparently rapid progress of the good work , their ...
... persons to peruse them ; condemning , at the same time , the worship of images , and permitting the prayers to saints to be omitted . But while the reformers were rejoicing in this apparently rapid progress of the good work , their ...
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... persons to purchase Bibles , and keep them in their own possession . The short - sighted despot did not perceive that the private use of the Scriptures would soon teach his people the right of private judgment also in matters of reli ...
... persons to purchase Bibles , and keep them in their own possession . The short - sighted despot did not perceive that the private use of the Scriptures would soon teach his people the right of private judgment also in matters of reli ...
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Page 84 - And the better to effect the intended reformation, we desire there may be a general synod of the most grave, pious, learned and judicious divines of this island ; assisted with some from foreign parts, professing the same religion with us, who may consider of all things necessary for the peace and good government of the Church...
Page 112 - Churches ; and we shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion, confession of faith, form of Church government, directory for worship and catechising, that we, and our posterity after us, may. as brethren, live in faith and love, and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us.
Page 112 - Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that Hierarchy), Superstition, Heresy, Schism, Profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness ; lest we partake in other men's sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues, and that the Lord may be one and His name one in the three Kingdoms.
Page 84 - Church as may be most agreeable to God's holy Word, and most apt to procure and preserve the peace of the Church at Home, and nearer agreement with the Church of Scotland, and other Reformed Churches abroad...
Page 112 - God, endeavour in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the Church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, according to 'the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed Churches...
Page 75 - I, AB, do in the Presence of Almighty God promise, vow and protest, To maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may, with my life, power and estate, the True Reformed Protestant Religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England...
Page 112 - We shall with the same sincerity, reality and constancy, in our several vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and privileges of the Parliaments, and the liberties of the kingdoms, and to preserve and defend the King's Majesty's person and authority, in the preservation and defence of the true religion and liberties of the kingdoms, that the world may bear witness with our consciences of our loyalty, and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His...
Page 114 - Christian churches groaning under, or in danger of, the yoke of anti-christian tyranny, to join in the same or like association and covenant, to the glory of GOD, the enlargement of the kingdom of JESUS CHRIST, and the peace and tranquility of Christian kingdoms and commonwealths.
Page 202 - In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Page 271 - The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England...