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... question , has commonly been the extent of their notions of religious liberty . Every sect has preached up just enough of liberality to answer its own purposes ; that is to say , just enough to secure an indulgence to its own deviations ...
... question , has commonly been the extent of their notions of religious liberty . Every sect has preached up just enough of liberality to answer its own purposes ; that is to say , just enough to secure an indulgence to its own deviations ...
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... question of their possessing this authority . Before proceeding to contest the claim , I wish to clear the ground I am to take from all misappre- hension . The Catholic may deny that I am a Catholic ; the Baptist may deny that I am a ...
... question of their possessing this authority . Before proceeding to contest the claim , I wish to clear the ground I am to take from all misappre- hension . The Catholic may deny that I am a Catholic ; the Baptist may deny that I am a ...
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... question ; and of course , as I have before observed , the same authority that was competent to make them , is competent to inter- pret and apply them . But if , merely on the strength of this , any sect , or any number of sects ...
... question ; and of course , as I have before observed , the same authority that was competent to make them , is competent to inter- pret and apply them . But if , merely on the strength of this , any sect , or any number of sects ...
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... question which you are not competent to decide . I differ from you , it is true ; but not more than you differ from me ; and as our difference relates to a subject , respecting which you cannot pre- tend to any degree of authority , or ...
... question which you are not competent to decide . I differ from you , it is true ; but not more than you differ from me ; and as our difference relates to a subject , respecting which you cannot pre- tend to any degree of authority , or ...
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... question whether these doctrines are doctrines of Chris- tianity ; and , if doctrines of Christianity , it is a question whether they are fundamental doctrines ; both of which questions are disputed , and in both of which he may be ...
... question whether these doctrines are doctrines of Chris- tianity ; and , if doctrines of Christianity , it is a question whether they are fundamental doctrines ; both of which questions are disputed , and in both of which he may be ...
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Page 134 - Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world.
Page 146 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 171 - You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment.
Page 56 - It is the duty of all parents to train up their children in the way they should go...
Page 205 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 184 - ... words; which having pursued and explained, as far as conduced to his present purpose, he re-assumes again the thread of his discourse, and goes on with it, without taking any notice that he returns again to what he had been before saying; though sometimes it be so far off, that it may well have...
Page 151 - And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Page 141 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 183 - To these causes of obscurity, common to St. Paul, with most of the other penmen of the several books of the New Testament, we may add those that are peculiarly his, and owing to his style and temper.
Page 15 - 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.