A Full Account of the Several Ends and Uses of Confessions of Faith: The Just Foundations of Their Authority as a Public Standard of Orthodoxy and a Vindication of the Equity, Usefulness and Excellency of Such Composures |
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Page 242 - This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.
Page 67 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Page 146 - Holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 216 - No man hath feen God at any time : the only begotten Son, which is in the bofom of the Father, he hath declared htm.
Page 79 - Parliament with the establishment therein contained shall be held and observed in all time coming as a fundamental and essential condition of any treaty or union to be concluded betwixt the two kingdoms without any alteration thereof or derogation thereto in any sort for ever...
Page 218 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 22 - The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.
Page 186 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.