Sermons Preached at the Annual Election1820 |
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... conscience . Equal privileges in religion are offered to all mankind , first indeed to the Jew , but still to the Greek - bar- barian , Scythian , bond and free . The spiritual kingdom of Christ knows no national distinctions . One is ...
... conscience . Equal privileges in religion are offered to all mankind , first indeed to the Jew , but still to the Greek - bar- barian , Scythian , bond and free . The spiritual kingdom of Christ knows no national distinctions . One is ...
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... courts . They drank into the spirit of the gospel , and demanded liberty of conscience . The English nation early claimed a share in the diffusion of Christian knowledge . It was not Lu- ther , nor Zuinglius , but WICKLIFFE , and his 14.
... courts . They drank into the spirit of the gospel , and demanded liberty of conscience . The English nation early claimed a share in the diffusion of Christian knowledge . It was not Lu- ther , nor Zuinglius , but WICKLIFFE , and his 14.
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... conscience sake , have become per- secutors ; and these , in their turn , have suffered the evils they had inflicted on others . The subject leads us 11. To consider the means which have been used by those who have undertaken thus to ...
... conscience sake , have become per- secutors ; and these , in their turn , have suffered the evils they had inflicted on others . The subject leads us 11. To consider the means which have been used by those who have undertaken thus to ...
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... conscience , their moral agency ; their interests for time and eternity , are no longer at their own disposal . And to have it known that they are not , frequent experiments must be made upon their credulity and good nature . If they ...
... conscience , their moral agency ; their interests for time and eternity , are no longer at their own disposal . And to have it known that they are not , frequent experiments must be made upon their credulity and good nature . If they ...
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... conscience merely , though he may have an opinion of his own , he will not feel himself at liberty to decide for others . And above all , will he be on his guard against lend- ing his aid to persecutors . The conduct of the Roman ...
... conscience merely , though he may have an opinion of his own , he will not feel himself at liberty to decide for others . And above all , will he be on his guard against lend- ing his aid to persecutors . The conduct of the Roman ...
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Page 21 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 23 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 10 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 6 - ... and It is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 6 - If it were a matter of wrong, or ' wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should ' bear with you : but if it be a question of words and ' names, and of your law, look ye to it ; for I will be no
Page 1 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 6 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Page 6 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors — It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 6 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 1 - 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.