Journal of a Tour Through the North of England and Parts of Scotland: With Remarks on the Present State of the Established Church of Scotland, and the Different Secessions Therefrom. Together with Reflections on Some Party Distinctions in England; Shewing the Origin of These Disputes, and the Causes of Their Separation

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T. Gillet ... also by T. Chapman ...; J. Matthews, 1799 - Scotland - 182 pages

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Page 82 - Churches ; and we shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion...
Page 82 - That we shall sincerely, really and constantly, through the grace of 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...
Page 150 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 149 - After men became Christians, much of their time was spent in prayer and devotion, in religious meetings, in celebrating the eucharist, in conferences, in exhortations, in preaching, in an affectionate intercourse with one another, and correspondence with other societies. Perhaps their mode of life, in its form and habit, was not very unlike the Unitas fratrum, or of modern Methodists.
Page 149 - After men became Chriftians, much of their time -was fpent in prayer and devotion, in religious meetings, in celebrating the eucharift, in conferences, in exhortations, in preaching, in an affectionate intercourfe with one another, and correfpondence with other focieties. Perhaps their mode of life in its form and habit was not very unlike that of the Unitas fratrum, or of modern Methodifts.
Page 100 - God fervice, while fiefhly contentions for a mere party blind our eyes, and forbid us to remember that "the kingdom of God is not meats and drinks, but righteoufnefs and peace and joy in the Holy Ghoft.
Page 83 - I partake of other men's sins, and be in danger to receive of their plagues, that the Lord may be one, and his name one, not only in the three kingdoms, but in all the kingdoms of the earth.
Page 84 - ... in a firm peace and union to all pofterity ; and that juftice may be done upon the wilful oppofers thereof, in manner exprefied in the precedent articles.
Page 83 - ... fins, 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 85 - ... of commendation :—" An uncommon degree of odium is fixed to the existence of a toad. They are supposed to be poisonous ; this is quite a vulgar error. They are useful reptiles; and are even capable of the knowledge of our attention and humanity. It is wanton cruelty to destroy them. In my country abode I even attempted to make them a place of retirement, and called it a toadery. Every creature that God has sent we should protect, and, in a subordinate degree, they demand our attention. * *...

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