The Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, with the Scripture-proofs at Large: Together with The Sum of Saving Knowledge Contain'd in the Holy Scriptures, and Held Forth in the Said Confession and Catechisms and Practical Use Thereof, Covenants, National and Solemn League, Acknowledgement of Sins and Engagement to Duties, Directories, Form of Church-government, &c of Public Authority in the Church of Scotland. With Acts of Assembly and Parliament, Relative To, and Approbative of the Same ... |
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... because ' tis the religion of the times and places wherein they live ; and what they take up thus flightly they lay down as eafily . Whereas an inward taste and relish of the things of God , is an excellent preservative to keep us ...
... because ' tis the religion of the times and places wherein they live ; and what they take up thus flightly they lay down as eafily . Whereas an inward taste and relish of the things of God , is an excellent preservative to keep us ...
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... because of their ignorance , cannot ; others because of their fluggishness , will not mind this duty . To the former we propound the method of Joshua , who first began with himself , and then is careful of his family . To the latter we ...
... because of their ignorance , cannot ; others because of their fluggishness , will not mind this duty . To the former we propound the method of Joshua , who first began with himself , and then is careful of his family . To the latter we ...
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... because they have lived long enough to have been wife , and the evidence of their knowledge is their aged ignorance ; and they are readier to flee in our faces for church - privileges , than to learn of us , and obey our instructions ...
... because they have lived long enough to have been wife , and the evidence of their knowledge is their aged ignorance ; and they are readier to flee in our faces for church - privileges , than to learn of us , and obey our instructions ...
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... because I have published it without his privity and consent , though , I hope , not a- gainst his liking and approbation , 1 thall add no more , but that I am Thy Servant In the Lord's work , THOMAS MΑΝΤΟΝ . 1034 An - An ordinance of ...
... because I have published it without his privity and consent , though , I hope , not a- gainst his liking and approbation , 1 thall add no more , but that I am Thy Servant In the Lord's work , THOMAS MΑΝΤΟΝ . 1034 An - An ordinance of ...
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... because it is the word of God i . * V. We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church , to an high and reverend esteem of the holy fcripture k , and the heavenliness of the matter , the efficacy of the doc- trine , that ...
... because it is the word of God i . * V. We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church , to an high and reverend esteem of the holy fcripture k , and the heavenliness of the matter , the efficacy of the doc- trine , that ...
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Page 368 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 341 - Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 351 - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear : For our God is a consuming fire.
Page 338 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 316 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 358 - These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God ; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Page 303 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 337 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more ; and unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews...
Page 333 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 345 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.