Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors Or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time ...W. Baynes, 1816 - Christian biography |
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... friends would not conform to the custom of Bern in celebrating the communion , made an order to enjoin those three members to leave the city in three days . When this decree was brought to Calvin , he said , " Truly , if I had served ...
... friends would not conform to the custom of Bern in celebrating the communion , made an order to enjoin those three members to leave the city in three days . When this decree was brought to Calvin , he said , " Truly , if I had served ...
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... friendship and unity between them . Calvin remarked of Luther , that he often prayed he might not see the vials of ... friends , were sheltered from the storm in England , where they were invited by archbishop Cranmer . The Calvinists ...
... friendship and unity between them . Calvin remarked of Luther , that he often prayed he might not see the vials of ... friends , were sheltered from the storm in England , where they were invited by archbishop Cranmer . The Calvinists ...
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... friends , carried those principles with them from Britain . The number of strangers visibly increased in Geneva ; and the English were allowed to found a church of their own nation in the city , as the Italians had done before them in ...
... friends , carried those principles with them from Britain . The number of strangers visibly increased in Geneva ; and the English were allowed to found a church of their own nation in the city , as the Italians had done before them in ...
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... friends would have dissuaded him , in his sick- ness , from dictating , and especially from writing , he an- swered ; " What ! would you have me idle when my . " Lord comes ? " Calvin was held in the highest veneration by the foreign ...
... friends would have dissuaded him , in his sick- ness , from dictating , and especially from writing , he an- swered ; " What ! would you have me idle when my . " Lord comes ? " Calvin was held in the highest veneration by the foreign ...
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... friends or acquain- tance whatsoever , accursed , that either do or shall hold , for the time to come , any ecclesiastical or civil power above the authority of the mother church , or that do or shall obey , for the time to come , any ...
... friends or acquain- tance whatsoever , accursed , that either do or shall hold , for the time to come , any ecclesiastical or civil power above the authority of the mother church , or that do or shall obey , for the time to come , any ...
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Page 273 - My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Page 468 - Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore ? When thou, hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 104 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 468 - When thou hast done, thou has not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 240 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels...
Page 339 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips : When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 274 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 396 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The bishop of Durham readily answered, ' God forbid, sir, but you should : you are the breath of our nostrils.
Page 378 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 472 - Many that then saw his tears and heard his faint and hollow voice professing they thought the text prophetically chosen and that Dr. Donne "had preached his own funeral sermon." Being full of joy that God had enabled him to perform this desired duty, he hastened to his house; out of which he never moved till, like St. Stephen, he was carried by devout men to his grave.