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" 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... "
Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical ... - Page 486
by Martin John Spalding - 1894
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volumes 1-2

1846 - 844 pages
...they have not a glimpse of the meaning. Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow, the earthly type, the pattern, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, has fallen lower from her original...
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Strictures on the Duke of Argyll's Essay on the Ecclesiastical History of ...

David Aitchison - Scotland - 1849 - 120 pages
...words of a Presbyterian, Mr Laing, in his Notes of a Traveller. He says, " Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure...Church of the original seat of Calvinism, in a city of five-and-twenty thousand souls, at the only Service on the Sabbath day — there being no evening Service...
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Journal of a Residence in Norway During the Years 1834, 1835, & 1836: Made ...

Samuel Laing - Norway - 1851 - 644 pages
...stillness, of the Sabbath morning, so remarkable in every Scotch town and house? Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure...the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, haa fallen lower from her own original doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell. Rome has still superstition:...
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Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia ...

Samuel Laing - Europe - 1854 - 304 pages
...of the Sabbath morning, so remarkable in every Scotch town and house 1 Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure...church of the original seat of Calvinism, in a. city of five-and-twenty thousand souls, at the only service on the Sabbath day — there being no evening service...
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History of Christian Churches and Sects, from the Earliest Ages of ..., Volume 1

John Buxton Marsden - Church history - 1856 - 524 pages
...stillness of the sabbath morning, so remarkable in every Scottish town ? Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, has fallen from her original doctrine and practice...
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Christian Missions; Their Agents, Their Method, and Their Results, Volume 3

Thomas William M. Marshall - Missions - 1862 - 514 pages
...«Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism,» exclaims a Scotch Presbyterian, « the fountain head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish...superstition , Geneva has not even that semblance of reliligion. » (3) More than twenty years ago, Protestantism in France — where « hardly twenty pasteurs...
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Christian missions: their agents, their method, and their results, Volume 2

Thomas William M. Marshall - 1863 - 528 pages
...Protestant Rome," said de Lamennais, " I do not say any Christian faith, but any faith whatever."* " The earthly source, the pattern, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice," adds Mr. Laing, " has fallen lower from her own doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell. Rome has...
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Christian Missions: Their Agents, and Their Results, Volume 2

Thomas William M. Marshall - Missions - 1864 - 522 pages
...the Home of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice," adds Mr. Laing, " has fallen lower from her own doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell. Rome has...superstition ; Geneva has not even that semblance of religion."f Perhaps the clergy retain the power and influence which they once possessed, and which...
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Sunday: Its Origin, History & Present Obligation

James Augustus Hessey - Sunday - 1866 - 488 pages
...repose, the stillness of the Sabbath morning, so remarkable in every Scotch town and house ? . . . Kome has still superstition ; Geneva has not even that...church of the original seat of Calvinism, in a city of five-and-twenty thousand souls, at the only service on the Sabbath Day — there being no evening service...
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The Question Solved: An Answer to Rev. Dr. Clark's Question of the Hour and ...

James C. Hannan - Religion in the public schools - 1870 - 280 pages
...thing that we have ever heard or read of. "Geneva, the seat and center of Calvinism, the fountain head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow . . . has fallen lower from her original doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell. Rome has still...
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