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... important labours in other ways prevented their appearing much before the public through the medium of the press . To the other honoured names comme- morated under this title , it was the writer's inten- tion to add that of Merivale ...
... important labours in other ways prevented their appearing much before the public through the medium of the press . To the other honoured names comme- morated under this title , it was the writer's inten- tion to add that of Merivale ...
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... important , though unpopular and obnoxious , truth . In addressing his mind to this inquiry , he did not ( as is the practice with too many ) first ex- amine what the rulers and pharisees believe , - what the fathers , the councils , or ...
... important , though unpopular and obnoxious , truth . In addressing his mind to this inquiry , he did not ( as is the practice with too many ) first ex- amine what the rulers and pharisees believe , - what the fathers , the councils , or ...
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... important , that what God had condescended to reveal should be rightly understood by those to whom it was addressed , his newly - acquired views were communicated without reserve , not only to those who might be engaged in similar ...
... important , that what God had condescended to reveal should be rightly understood by those to whom it was addressed , his newly - acquired views were communicated without reserve , not only to those who might be engaged in similar ...
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... importance in the world , and that the divine truth suffers not herself to be despised scot - free . " Neither let the meanness of my outward appearance deter you from stirring , since it is the part of a wise man , as in all things so ...
... importance in the world , and that the divine truth suffers not herself to be despised scot - free . " Neither let the meanness of my outward appearance deter you from stirring , since it is the part of a wise man , as in all things so ...
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... important subject . It is much easier to con- fine ourselves to those arguments which we are already disposed to think conclusive , and to go along with the stream , than to undertake the labour of examination and patient inquiry ; not ...
... important subject . It is much easier to con- fine ourselves to those arguments which we are already disposed to think conclusive , and to go along with the stream , than to undertake the labour of examination and patient inquiry ; not ...
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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.