Reflections upon Church-government: or, An enquiry into the nature and extent of the several powers belonging to the Church as a religious society, both before and after its union with the State |
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Page 393 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Page 405 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us ? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
Page 447 - And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake : but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Page 435 - After the greatest care and attention, some spots, some failures arise, which must be odious in the sight of Him "Who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity...
Page 102 - TIME is a circumstance no less inseparable from religious actions than place, for man consisting of a soul and body cannot always be actually engaged in the service of God : that is the privilege of angels, and souls freed from the fetters of mortality. So long as we are here, we must worship God with respect to our present state, and consequently of necessity have some definite and particular time to do it in.
Page 375 - Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Page 479 - Lord. Then faid Jefus to them again, Peace be unto you : As my Father hath fent me, even fo fend I you. And when he had faid this, he breathed on them, and faith unto them, Receive ye the holy Ghoft. Whofefoever fins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whofefoever fins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 453 - Man that ajketh them a Reafon of the Hope that is in them with Meeknefs and Fear.
Page 61 - Honour, therefore, abftrafted from the notion of religion, which enjoins it, is an idle chimera, which can have little power over any man that does not believe a Divine Legiftator, whofe authority muft enforce
Page 115 - To him which considereth the grievous and scandalous inconveniences whereunto they make themselves daily subject, with whom any blind and secret corner is judged a fit house of common prayer; the manifold confusions which they fall into...