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... shews him to have been not only a man of an enlarged and liberal spirit , far beyond the prevailing temper of the times in which he lived , but a firm believer in the unity of God . It is not in the unseemly spirit of vain boasting that ...
... shews him to have been not only a man of an enlarged and liberal spirit , far beyond the prevailing temper of the times in which he lived , but a firm believer in the unity of God . It is not in the unseemly spirit of vain boasting that ...
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... to him as reported by Mr. Locke , as far as they are intelligible or credi- ble , shew him to have been rather a believer in the simple humanity of Christ . pestilent heresies besides , some of which are con- tradictory 10 EARLY HISTORY OF.
... to him as reported by Mr. Locke , as far as they are intelligible or credi- ble , shew him to have been rather a believer in the simple humanity of Christ . pestilent heresies besides , some of which are con- tradictory 10 EARLY HISTORY OF.
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... skill as a dis- putant . Thus it happened that this attack , which was intended to destroy his credit with and influ- ence over his adherents , had the contrary effect , and served only to shew more clearly how deeply he JOHN BIDDLE . 39.
... skill as a dis- putant . Thus it happened that this attack , which was intended to destroy his credit with and influ- ence over his adherents , had the contrary effect , and served only to shew more clearly how deeply he JOHN BIDDLE . 39.
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With a Notice of Dissenting Academies William Turner. and served only to shew more clearly how deeply he had studied the question , and made himself master of the argument before he ventured on the bold and decisive step of avowing an ...
With a Notice of Dissenting Academies William Turner. and served only to shew more clearly how deeply he had studied the question , and made himself master of the argument before he ventured on the bold and decisive step of avowing an ...
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... shew a leaning to Unitarian opinions ; he was induced , in consequence , to challenge Mr. Biddle to a public disputation on the subject in his own meet- ing - house . With considerable hesitation and reluctance , probably arising from ...
... shew a leaning to Unitarian opinions ; he was induced , in consequence , to challenge Mr. Biddle to a public disputation on the subject in his own meet- ing - house . With considerable hesitation and reluctance , probably arising from ...
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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 371 - In my time, the academy was in a state peculiarly favorable to the serious pursuit of truth, as the students were about equally divided upon every question of much importance, such as Liberty and Necessity, the Sleep of the soul, and all the articles of theological orthodoxy and heresy ; in consequence of which all these topics were the subject of continual discussion. Our tutors also were of different opinions; Dr. Ashworth taking the orthodox side of every question, and Mr. Clark, the sub-tutor,...
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.