A Letter from a Gentleman to His Son Abroad: Occasioned by His Having Married a Roman Catholic. To which are Added, a Few Moral and Entertaining Letters, on Different Subjects: with The Protestant's Universal Prayer |
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... must their Afflic- tions be on each other's Account ; and the more Goodness , Piety , and Religion , is in either of them , the more Zeal they purfue their different Persuasions with , the more Mifery , the more real Grief muft either ...
... must their Afflic- tions be on each other's Account ; and the more Goodness , Piety , and Religion , is in either of them , the more Zeal they purfue their different Persuasions with , the more Mifery , the more real Grief muft either ...
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... must certainly find to be the Cafe , who take upon them the eafy Yoke of Chrift's ( pure , undefiled ) Reli- gion , instead of the slavish , arbitrary Bon- dage of Popish Bigotry . Thus much by Way of Preface to the following Letter ...
... must certainly find to be the Cafe , who take upon them the eafy Yoke of Chrift's ( pure , undefiled ) Reli- gion , instead of the slavish , arbitrary Bon- dage of Popish Bigotry . Thus much by Way of Preface to the following Letter ...
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... must own , is no lit- tle Disturbance to me . I take it , that the Happiness of the married State does not confift so much in the Love of one another's Perfons ( though that is a very good In- gredient towards it ) as in Affections much ...
... must own , is no lit- tle Disturbance to me . I take it , that the Happiness of the married State does not confift so much in the Love of one another's Perfons ( though that is a very good In- gredient towards it ) as in Affections much ...
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... must be as lafting at least as their joint Lives , unless the one or the other of them change their Reli- gion . For , the pungent Sorrow that must arise in each of their Souls , from the Belief that the other of them is in a wrong Way ...
... must be as lafting at least as their joint Lives , unless the one or the other of them change their Reli- gion . For , the pungent Sorrow that must arise in each of their Souls , from the Belief that the other of them is in a wrong Way ...
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... must not be , for they must facrifice fuch Creatures to God , as were esteemed themselves to be Gods by the Egyptians , in whofe Sight ( 1 ) fuch Sacri- fices would be fo great a Scandal , and fuch an Abomination , as would provoke them ...
... must not be , for they must facrifice fuch Creatures to God , as were esteemed themselves to be Gods by the Egyptians , in whofe Sight ( 1 ) fuch Sacri- fices would be fo great a Scandal , and fuch an Abomination , as would provoke them ...
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Page 123 - For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 17 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 118 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
Page 118 - Christ's Body and Blood, the Curate shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and stedfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed his Blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby...
Page 123 - Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace?
Page 118 - Augustine saith, the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ ; yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ, but rather, to their condemnation, do eat and drink the sign or sacrament of so great a thing.
Page 112 - ALMIGHTY God our Heavenly Father, who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins, to all them that with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him ; have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and bring you to everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 70 - His one oblation of Himself once offered) a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, and did institute, and in His holy Gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that His precious death, until His coming again...
Page 125 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 131 - Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things ... but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb, without blemish and without spot.