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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... Doctrines , and so pure , chaste , and devotional in her formularies of Worship ? Let every soul , then , who has any regard for real religion and un- feigned piety , and who feels any interest in the spiritual welfare of himself and ...
... Doctrines , and so pure , chaste , and devotional in her formularies of Worship ? Let every soul , then , who has any regard for real religion and un- feigned piety , and who feels any interest in the spiritual welfare of himself and ...
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... doctrine and prayer of the Church is prescribed by the State , and if the whole Clergy throughout the Kingdom were to be directed , on a certain Sunday , to fall down and worship an ass , they would be compelled to do it . " This is ...
... doctrine and prayer of the Church is prescribed by the State , and if the whole Clergy throughout the Kingdom were to be directed , on a certain Sunday , to fall down and worship an ass , they would be compelled to do it . " This is ...
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... doctrines and extravagan- cies in his sermon on the Sunday , and as sure as pos- -sible some gross crime - some heinous offence will be -imputed to him by those pious people before the week is out . Instances of immorality amongst such ...
... doctrines and extravagan- cies in his sermon on the Sunday , and as sure as pos- -sible some gross crime - some heinous offence will be -imputed to him by those pious people before the week is out . Instances of immorality amongst such ...
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... doctrines and discipline any thing that can be called , careful attention . But I would earnestly entreat them once again , to cast aside their prejudices , and shake off the trammels of Dissent if but for a moment , and give the Church ...
... doctrines and discipline any thing that can be called , careful attention . But I would earnestly entreat them once again , to cast aside their prejudices , and shake off the trammels of Dissent if but for a moment , and give the Church ...
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... doctrine . " But if the Church of Ephesus con- sisted of but one Congregation , and was otherwise con- stituted like your modern pretendedly scriptural Inde- pendent Churches , why had it so many Elders or Ministers , for surely one ...
... doctrine . " But if the Church of Ephesus con- sisted of but one Congregation , and was otherwise con- stituted like your modern pretendedly scriptural Inde- pendent Churches , why had it so many Elders or Ministers , for surely one ...
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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.