Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Volume 2J. Murphy Company, 1894 - American essays |
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Page 374
... doctrines " of the " cursed sect " of Quakers , were forbidden , under severe penalties , from meeting together for worship ; " Quakers , Ranters , and all such corrupt persons could not be admitted as freemen , nor be allowed to vote ...
... doctrines " of the " cursed sect " of Quakers , were forbidden , under severe penalties , from meeting together for worship ; " Quakers , Ranters , and all such corrupt persons could not be admitted as freemen , nor be allowed to vote ...
Page 375
... doctrine of persecution on the authority of the Bible . This strongly reminds us of John Calvin's famous , or rather infamous book in favor of punishing heretics , written by him expressly to vindicate his agency ir the burning of ...
... doctrine of persecution on the authority of the Bible . This strongly reminds us of John Calvin's famous , or rather infamous book in favor of punishing heretics , written by him expressly to vindicate his agency ir the burning of ...
Page 383
... Doctrine of progress applied to religion - Degrading religion to an earthly standard- Reason and faith - Incident related by St. Augustine - Reasoning backwards - A tower of Babel- Modern systems of philosophy - True and false liberty ...
... Doctrine of progress applied to religion - Degrading religion to an earthly standard- Reason and faith - Incident related by St. Augustine - Reasoning backwards - A tower of Babel- Modern systems of philosophy - True and false liberty ...
Page 386
... doctrine of progress to religion and to heavenly things ; and secondly an almost total forgetfulness of religion and of heaven , in the all - absorbing interest which the mind is made to take in things of this earth . We will devote ...
... doctrine of progress to religion and to heavenly things ; and secondly an almost total forgetfulness of religion and of heaven , in the all - absorbing interest which the mind is made to take in things of this earth . We will devote ...
Page 387
... doctrine of human progress is the starting point ; religion is the conclusion reached . Science is everything ... doctrines of revelation appear to them to promote human knowledge and to aid human progress , are received with applause ...
... doctrine of human progress is the starting point ; religion is the conclusion reached . Science is everything ... doctrines of revelation appear to them to promote human knowledge and to aid human progress , are received with applause ...
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Page 567 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 517 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 370 - ... it is therefore ordered, that the said Mr. Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks now next ensuing ; which if he neglect to perform, it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magistrates to send him to some place out of this jurisdiction, not to return any more without license from the court.
Page 517 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 423 - If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
Page 486 - Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow, the earthly source, the pattern, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, has fallen lower from her own original doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell.
Page 375 - ... dropt sometimes out of the air, before sufficient spectators, into the hands of the afflicted, while the spectres were urging them to subscribe their covenant with death. Moreover, poisons to the standersby wholly...
Page 374 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Page 502 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 418 - This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner ; neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved.