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... common Puritanism of the present time rank heathenish super- stition . Let us at all events have honesty enough to own here what is the simple truth . Let us look the fact fairly and steadily in the face , and then as a fact we may deal ...
... common Puritanism of the present time rank heathenish super- stition . Let us at all events have honesty enough to own here what is the simple truth . Let us look the fact fairly and steadily in the face , and then as a fact we may deal ...
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... common Episcopalian form ; that it goes in fact for many of the leading features of Roman- ism , and that for Episcopalians therefore as an argument which proves too much it may be said properly to prove nothing . In this light we find ...
... common Episcopalian form ; that it goes in fact for many of the leading features of Roman- ism , and that for Episcopalians therefore as an argument which proves too much it may be said properly to prove nothing . In this light we find ...
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... common Protestant notion concerning the progressive corruptions of Popery , it being a natural supposition that the higher we ascend toward the apostolic age , so much the more truth , simplicity , purity , must there have been in the ...
... common Protestant notion concerning the progressive corruptions of Popery , it being a natural supposition that the higher we ascend toward the apostolic age , so much the more truth , simplicity , purity , must there have been in the ...
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... common witness in a court of law . The voice of the church is to him only as the voice of the profane world , the authority of the fathers of one and the same order with the authority of Tacitus or Pliny . Autiquity may help us to the ...
... common witness in a court of law . The voice of the church is to him only as the voice of the profane world , the authority of the fathers of one and the same order with the authority of Tacitus or Pliny . Autiquity may help us to the ...
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... Common history will not endure any such gross contradiction . But still less can it be reconciled with any faith in the history of the church , as a supernatural order . If Ambrose could so lend himself to the Devil , he was no saint ...
... Common history will not endure any such gross contradiction . But still less can it be reconciled with any faith in the history of the church , as a supernatural order . If Ambrose could so lend himself to the Devil , he was no saint ...
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Page 195 - Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Page 74 - What is man that thou art mindful of him ? or the son of man, that thou visitest him ? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels ; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
Page 401 - And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Page 620 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 364 - Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Page 145 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass ; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 221 - The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Page 194 - And all the tithe' of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S : it is holy unto the LORD.
Page 353 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 354 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.