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... worship and ordinances a simplicity becoming to their spiritual charac- ter . But a usurping hierarchy , engrossing a power belonging to none but Christ , had over- turned all his enactments ; and instituted cere- monies and modes of ...
... worship and ordinances a simplicity becoming to their spiritual charac- ter . But a usurping hierarchy , engrossing a power belonging to none but Christ , had over- turned all his enactments ; and instituted cere- monies and modes of ...
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... worship of God , but what they have his warrant for . Unless com- ing in his name , they will not hear an angel from heaven . They know the apostles them- selves were to teach the saints only what he commanded them . And you know how ...
... worship of God , but what they have his warrant for . Unless com- ing in his name , they will not hear an angel from heaven . They know the apostles them- selves were to teach the saints only what he commanded them . And you know how ...
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... worship and institutions . " * It is necessary that we should understand the principle involved in this great controversy . The Puritans did not contend for the abolishing of a few harmless or insignificant ceremonies more or less ...
... worship and institutions . " * It is necessary that we should understand the principle involved in this great controversy . The Puritans did not contend for the abolishing of a few harmless or insignificant ceremonies more or less ...
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... worship shall be performed in one way or another way , - -or whether the Lord's Supper shall be received in this posture or in that . These , it may be , are small ques- tions to divide the church about . And yet it argues much more of ...
... worship shall be performed in one way or another way , - -or whether the Lord's Supper shall be received in this posture or in that . These , it may be , are small ques- tions to divide the church about . And yet it argues much more of ...
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... worship and polity of the gospel . We see the wisdom of God in transplanting them to these vacant deserts , whose remoteness made them more fit for free and untrammeled inquiry for the ordinances of the Bible . Here no antiquated ...
... worship and polity of the gospel . We see the wisdom of God in transplanting them to these vacant deserts , whose remoteness made them more fit for free and untrammeled inquiry for the ordinances of the Bible . Here no antiquated ...
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Page 276 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 123 - For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as. in all churches of the saints.
Page 297 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 102 - Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. 29. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, 30. But he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come, eternal life.
Page 50 - And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; Of whom the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 27 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort : who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 297 - And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
Page 118 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 155 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears." But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock.
Page 126 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for. See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.