Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D.R. L. Bryan Company, 1908 - Presbyterian Church |
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... duty , to utter his free thoughts concerning the religious systems to which such men are attached . Every day's experience and research , however , only confirm and strengthen the convictions formed by education . But it is with the sys ...
... duty , to utter his free thoughts concerning the religious systems to which such men are attached . Every day's experience and research , however , only confirm and strengthen the convictions formed by education . But it is with the sys ...
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... duty of the people to pray for magistrates , to honor their persons , to pay them tribute and other dues , to obey their lawful commands , and to be subject to their authority , for conscience sake . Infidelity , or indifference in ...
... duty of the people to pray for magistrates , to honor their persons , to pay them tribute and other dues , to obey their lawful commands , and to be subject to their authority , for conscience sake . Infidelity , or indifference in ...
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... 94. Wks . vol . ii . p . 254 . ** Jefferson's Wks . vol . i . p . 113 , 115. The God who gave us life , gave us liberty at the same time , ' p . 116 . The right and duty of private judgment , liberty of 10 ECCLESIASTICAL REPUBLICANISM .
... 94. Wks . vol . ii . p . 254 . ** Jefferson's Wks . vol . i . p . 113 , 115. The God who gave us life , gave us liberty at the same time , ' p . 116 . The right and duty of private judgment , liberty of 10 ECCLESIASTICAL REPUBLICANISM .
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Thomas Smyth John William Flinn, Jean Adger Flinn. The right and duty of private judgment , liberty of conscience , liberty of opinion , and liberty of the press , are also among those fundamental maxims upon which all republicanism is ...
Thomas Smyth John William Flinn, Jean Adger Flinn. The right and duty of private judgment , liberty of conscience , liberty of opinion , and liberty of the press , are also among those fundamental maxims upon which all republicanism is ...
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... duty of private judg- ment . It addresses its hearers as ' reasonable men . ' It ' com- mends the truth to every man's conscience in the sight of God . ' It calls upon all that have ears , to hear ; upon all that hear to search the ...
... duty of private judg- ment . It addresses its hearers as ' reasonable men . ' It ' com- mends the truth to every man's conscience in the sight of God . ' It calls upon all that have ears , to hear ; upon all that hear to search the ...
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Page 280 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? why arc they then baptized for the dead...
Page 485 - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 202 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 156 - God alone is lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.
Page 241 - And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Page 279 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
Page 465 - ... nor can any man be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments, or peculiar mode of religious worship; and that no authority can, or ought to be vested in, or assumed by, any power whatever, that shall in any case interfere with, or in any manner control the rights of conscience, in the free exercise of religious worship.
Page 202 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Page 558 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Page 122 - The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.