John Checkley; Or, The Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay: Including Mr. Checkley's Controversial Writings; His Letters and Other Papers ...

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Edmund Farwell Slafter
Prince society, 1897 - Episcopacy
 

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Page 255 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 20 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 273 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 60 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Page 273 - A LETTER FROM A BLACKSMITH, TO THE MINISTERS AND ELDERS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND IN WHICH THE MANNER OF PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THAT CHURCH is CONSIDERED, ITS INCONVENIENCES AND DEFECTS POINTED OUT, AND METHODS FOR THE REMOVING OF THEM HUMBLY PROPOSED.
Page 233 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 277 - But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised : 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour ; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Page 239 - England as a missionary in 1708, in a letter to the secretary of the Society for the Propagation, of the Gospel...
Page 257 - And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Page 238 - Chrift: that we hencerforth be no more children tofled to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the Height of men, and cunning craftinefs, whereby they lie in wait to deceive...

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