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... given birth to a multiplicity of different sects and parties . And as the history and knowledge of religious sects may be said to constitute a branch of general ecclesiastical and literary history , a part of the original materials , of ...
... given birth to a multiplicity of different sects and parties . And as the history and knowledge of religious sects may be said to constitute a branch of general ecclesiastical and literary history , a part of the original materials , of ...
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... given of their respective churches . Nor can I here omit likewise thankfully to acknowledge the able and ready assistance I have received from the Rev. Dr. Cook , of Lawrencekirk , a Presbyterian divine , highly gifted both in head and ...
... given of their respective churches . Nor can I here omit likewise thankfully to acknowledge the able and ready assistance I have received from the Rev. Dr. Cook , of Lawrencekirk , a Presbyterian divine , highly gifted both in head and ...
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... given them any just ground of offence , they need look for no reparation , nor expect that I shall apologize or contend . Let me be fully convinced of my errors and mistakes ; let me be shewn clearly and candidly the " hay and stubble ...
... given them any just ground of offence , they need look for no reparation , nor expect that I shall apologize or contend . Let me be fully convinced of my errors and mistakes ; let me be shewn clearly and candidly the " hay and stubble ...
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... given rise to fierce and endless contentions , and made them so earnest for their own peculiarities , and so prejudiced against those of others , that the love , which is the discriminating characteristic of his religion , has scarcely ...
... given rise to fierce and endless contentions , and made them so earnest for their own peculiarities , and so prejudiced against those of others , that the love , which is the discriminating characteristic of his religion , has scarcely ...
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... given to this commerce , no less detrimental to society than destructive to religion . Luther , on Tetzel's coming to Wittemberg in 1517 , scan- dalized at this venal remission of all sins , past , present , or to comet , exposed , with ...
... given to this commerce , no less detrimental to society than destructive to religion . Luther , on Tetzel's coming to Wittemberg in 1517 , scan- dalized at this venal remission of all sins , past , present , or to comet , exposed , with ...
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Page 91 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry; Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
Page 170 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Page 395 - WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 18 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 271 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
Page xxiii - Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Page 271 - Church has held, and does hold ; to whom it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Scriptures. Neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers.
Page 271 - I also profess, that there are truly and properly seven sacraments, of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not all for every one: to wit, baptism, confirmation, eucharist, penance, extreme unction, orders, and matrimony; and that they confer grace : and that of these, baptism, confirmation, and orders, cannot be reiterated without sacrilege.
Page 41 - Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son : and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.
Page 271 - God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.