Fifty YearsHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 97 pages |
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Page 79 - First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me and all the world. Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me and all mankind. Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me and all the elect people of God.
Page 61 - Will you then give your faithful diligence always so to minister the doctrine and sacraments, and the discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this Church and Realm hath received the same...
Page 61 - WILL you be ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away from the Church all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's Word...
Page 92 - When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both Law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
Page 61 - WILL you reverently obey your Bishop, and other chief Ministers, who, according to the Canons of the Church, may have the charge and government over you; following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions, and submitting yourselves to their godly judgments ? Answer. I will so do, the Lord being my helper.
Page 67 - In which it will also appear, that this Church is far from intending to depart from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship ; or further than local circumstances require.
Page 10 - While the Jesus of the Gospels was a vivid story, the chief emphasis was upon the Old Testament, and of course both Old and New Testaments, being inspired, were true to the word and letter. The world was created in six days in the year 4004 BC, for Genesis and the date on the margin of the family Bible said so. Adam and Eve, the serpent, Noah and the flood destroying everybody and everything on the earth but the family and the animals entering the Ark two by two, Jonah and the whale, Joshua and the...
Page 84 - Dost thou believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith, as contained in the Apostles
Page 40 - Was crucified, dead, and buried ; He descended into hell, The third day he rose from the dead ; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Page 92 - ... impossibility of knowing what is truth. The Bible cannot satisfy them ; books cannot satisfy them ; sermons but multiply their difficulties ; and what are they to do ? The Eternal Source of truth hath informed them, that they would arrive at certainty if they would but cease their rebellion against God. " If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine.