The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark: Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time : with an Appendix on the Origin, Progress, and Present State of Christianity in Britain, Volume 1author, 1808 - Church history |
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... give them the same li- berty of judgment that I have taken myself . Christians who cannot debate their differences without being angry , should leave the path of controversy , and confine themselves to the cul- tivation of the christian ...
... give them the same li- berty of judgment that I have taken myself . Christians who cannot debate their differences without being angry , should leave the path of controversy , and confine themselves to the cul- tivation of the christian ...
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... give a brief account . These were the people ROBERT BROWN , of ROBERT BROWN descended from an ancient and ho- nourable family in Rutlandshire , ( D ) and was nearly related to the Lord Treasurer Cecil . He received his education in ...
... give a brief account . These were the people ROBERT BROWN , of ROBERT BROWN descended from an ancient and ho- nourable family in Rutlandshire , ( D ) and was nearly related to the Lord Treasurer Cecil . He received his education in ...
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... give some account of them . They thought that the form of Church government should be democratical ; that every dis- tinct society was a body corporate , having full power within Biog . Brit . vol . ii . Art . Brown . - Fuller's Church ...
... give some account of them . They thought that the form of Church government should be democratical ; that every dis- tinct society was a body corporate , having full power within Biog . Brit . vol . ii . Art . Brown . - Fuller's Church ...
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... give of themselves is , that " they were almost consumed with deep poverty ; loaded with reproaches ; des- pised and afflicted by all . " § The reception they met with , from a people just emerging from civil and religious oppres- sion ...
... give of themselves is , that " they were almost consumed with deep poverty ; loaded with reproaches ; des- pised and afflicted by all . " § The reception they met with , from a people just emerging from civil and religious oppres- sion ...
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... gives the following farcical account of Mr. Jessey's death and burial . length , ( says he ) paying his last debt to nature , Sept. 4 , 1663 , being then accounted the oracle and idol of the faction , was on the seventh of the same ...
... gives the following farcical account of Mr. Jessey's death and burial . length , ( says he ) paying his last debt to nature , Sept. 4 , 1663 , being then accounted the oracle and idol of the faction , was on the seventh of the same ...
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Page 244 - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 378 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 215 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 142 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 33 - I charge you, before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 67 - Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 33 - I beseech you, remember it is an article of your church covenant, " That you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 16 - Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day.
Page 304 - As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over his works. Under his direction it may be truly said, Theologiae philosophia ancillatur (Philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction). It is difficult to read a page without learning, or at least wishing, to be better. The attention is caught by indirect instruction; and he that sat down only to reason is on a sudden compelled to pray.
Page 244 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.