Lives of Eminent Unitarians: With a Notice of Dissenting Academies, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 42
Page 22
... exercising this right ( or rather of performing this duty ) without bias or prejudice , examining the scriptures for themselves , and openly and candidly professing the doctrines which they honestly believed to be inculcated by the word ...
... exercising this right ( or rather of performing this duty ) without bias or prejudice , examining the scriptures for themselves , and openly and candidly professing the doctrines which they honestly believed to be inculcated by the word ...
Page 24
... indications of that disposition to exercise an independence of judgment and freedom of inquiry which were ever after a leading feature of his character , and the mainspring at once of his eminence and of his misfortunes 24 JOHN BIDDLE .
... indications of that disposition to exercise an independence of judgment and freedom of inquiry which were ever after a leading feature of his character , and the mainspring at once of his eminence and of his misfortunes 24 JOHN BIDDLE .
Page 33
... exercise of human power dis- played against him as to be deterred from di- recting his thoughts to the further promotion of what he conceived to be the noblest and most D worthy object on which they could be engaged , namely JOHN BIDDLE ...
... exercise of human power dis- played against him as to be deterred from di- recting his thoughts to the further promotion of what he conceived to be the noblest and most D worthy object on which they could be engaged , namely JOHN BIDDLE ...
Page 49
... exercise of their reli- gion . " And again , " all statutes , ordinances , & c . , to the contrary of the aforesaid liberty , shall be es- teemed null and void . " Notwithstanding this , it would not have been prudent in Cromwell to set ...
... exercise of their reli- gion . " And again , " all statutes , ordinances , & c . , to the contrary of the aforesaid liberty , shall be es- teemed null and void . " Notwithstanding this , it would not have been prudent in Cromwell to set ...
Page 51
... exercises and pursuits , undis- mayed by the dangers he had encountered and the evils he had suffered , and deeming not even his life dear unto him , if by any means he might promote the knowledge of the only true God , and of Jesus ...
... exercises and pursuits , undis- mayed by the dangers he had encountered and the evils he had suffered , and deeming not even his life dear unto him , if by any means he might promote the knowledge of the only true God , and of Jesus ...
Other editions - View all
Lives Eminent Unitarians: With a Notice of Dissenting Academies (Classic ... W. Turner No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
academy afterwards apostles appeared argument Arian Barrington believe Benson Biddle Bishop of Carlisle called Chandler character chiefly Christian church Church of England congregation connexion consequence controversy David Fordyce death discourse dispute Dissenters distinct distinguished divine doctrine doubt eminent Emlyn endeavour England English dissenters entitled Epistle evidence excellent exercise expressed faith Father favour friends Gospel Hallet heresy heretic Holy honour human inquiry Jesus Christ labours Lardner learning liberal liberty Lord Barrington ment mind ministers nature notions object occasion opinions original sin particular parties Peirce period persons preached preacher Presbyterian principles profession Protestant published pupils question racter rational reason received religion religious remarkable reputation Samuel Clark says scripture sentiments sermon shew sion Socinian spirit supposed talents Taylor Testament theological things Thomas Emlyn tion Towgood tract treatise Trinitarian Trinity truth tutor Unitarian University of Aberdeen valuable views Warrington academy worship writers
Popular passages
Page 16 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 175 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Page 49 - That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ (though differing in judgment from the doctrine, worship or discipline publicly held forth) shall not be restrained from, but shall be protected in, the profession of the faith and exercise of their religion...
Page 63 - Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father : for my Father is greater than I.
Page 323 - But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment : yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified : but He that judgeth me is the Lord.
Page 188 - A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject ; 1 1 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Page 153 - Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster cruse of ointment, and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 15 - Ghost, according to scripture and the apostolic creed; as for terms of trinity, triniunity, coessentiality, tripersonality, and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions, not to be found in scripture, which by a general protestant maxim is plain and perspicuous abundantly to explain its own meaning in the properest words, belonging to so high a matter, and so necessary to be known ; a mystery indeed in their sophistic subtilties, but in scripture a plain doctrine. Their other opinions are...
Page 61 - I best kept up the divine unity ; but then I had lost a trinity, such as the Scripture discovers, so that I could never keep both in view at once.