Letters to a Dissenting Minister, of the Congregational Independent Denomination: Containing Remarks on the Principles of that Sect, and the Author's Reasons for Leaving It, and Conforming to the Church of England |
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... appear to me to be so weighty , I will make a few remarks , and lay before you a few facts connected with the history of my own opinions . In the first place , then , I con- sider it expedient to intimate , that my parents were rigid ...
... appear to me to be so weighty , I will make a few remarks , and lay before you a few facts connected with the history of my own opinions . In the first place , then , I con- sider it expedient to intimate , that my parents were rigid ...
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... appear very pious people ; and if great profession and great talking constitute sterling godliness , they certainly are the most pious people on the face of the whole earth . But although I had seen so much hypocrisy and wickedness ...
... appear very pious people ; and if great profession and great talking constitute sterling godliness , they certainly are the most pious people on the face of the whole earth . But although I had seen so much hypocrisy and wickedness ...
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... appears that Dissenters themselves consider such secessions no worthy acquisition to their own ranks , and no loss whatever to the Church ; and I certainly agree with them , and do think , that if all others of the same stamp , such as ...
... appears that Dissenters themselves consider such secessions no worthy acquisition to their own ranks , and no loss whatever to the Church ; and I certainly agree with them , and do think , that if all others of the same stamp , such as ...
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... appears , by Dr. Bennett , who is , as they tell us , a very great and learned man . This said Doctor sometime ago published a sermon , sometimes called the " bone and muscle sermon , " on the duty of Dissenters to support their ...
... appears , by Dr. Bennett , who is , as they tell us , a very great and learned man . This said Doctor sometime ago published a sermon , sometimes called the " bone and muscle sermon , " on the duty of Dissenters to support their ...
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... appears an upright and conscientious man . He was , it seems , one of the Committee of the Society previously to its second annual meeting ; but owing to the violent and abusive nature of its tracts and proceedings , he then insisted on ...
... appears an upright and conscientious man . He was , it seems , one of the Committee of the Society previously to its second annual meeting ; but owing to the violent and abusive nature of its tracts and proceedings , he then insisted on ...
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Page 26 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ, and no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light ; therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works.
Page 128 - He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Page 331 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself...
Page 156 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars : and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Page 180 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 269 - We therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body when the sea shall give up her dead...
Page 43 - And the word of God increased ; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Page 70 - Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Page 353 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 331 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well.