An amicable discussion on the Church of England and on the reformation in general, reduced into the form of lettrs, tr. by W. Richmond, Volume 1 |
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... spirit , whilst residing amongst you ; and now , in my state of separation from you , I am still equally afflicted with dismay and pity , so often as I consider , what you were , and what you are . From the establishment of Christianity ...
... spirit , whilst residing amongst you ; and now , in my state of separation from you , I am still equally afflicted with dismay and pity , so often as I consider , what you were , and what you are . From the establishment of Christianity ...
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... spirit of revelation , as to appear inseparably connected with its establishment . I shall then open the scriptures , and they will shew us the precept delivered by Jesus Christ to his apostles , in the clearest , the most forcible ...
... spirit of revelation , as to appear inseparably connected with its establishment . I shall then open the scriptures , and they will shew us the precept delivered by Jesus Christ to his apostles , in the clearest , the most forcible ...
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... spirit of our reve- lation . In fact , what was the condition of the world with respect to it at the coming of our Savi- our ? You need not be informed . If you except the people who preserved the deposit of the sacred truths , all the ...
... spirit of our reve- lation . In fact , what was the condition of the world with respect to it at the coming of our Savi- our ? You need not be informed . If you except the people who preserved the deposit of the sacred truths , all the ...
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... spirit and economy of his mission , to replace the multiplied idolatrous societies and superstitious worships , by a variety of separate sects , of incoherent and opposite commu- nions ; it could not admit that it was his will there ...
... spirit and economy of his mission , to replace the multiplied idolatrous societies and superstitious worships , by a variety of separate sects , of incoherent and opposite commu- nions ; it could not admit that it was his will there ...
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... spirits had not been borne away with the mania of dogmatising , and subtilizing upon mysteries ; if ambitious hypo- crites and proud sectarians had not divided brethren , torn the Church and miserably dragged entire nations after them ...
... spirits had not been borne away with the mania of dogmatising , and subtilizing upon mysteries ; if ambitious hypo- crites and proud sectarians had not divided brethren , torn the Church and miserably dragged entire nations after them ...
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Page 231 - Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat ? Then Jesus said to them: Amen, Amen I say unto you: except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.
Page 158 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 266 - I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away : and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Page 21 - I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 36 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 161 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 92 - Going, therefore, teach ye all nations : baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world.
Page 35 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord ; in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 229 - If any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever ; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
Page 27 - And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me ; that they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee ; that they also may be one in us ; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.