Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors Or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time ...W. Baynes, 1816 - Christian biography |
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... authority or ' power over them ; but officers chosen by the people , ' yearly out of themselves , to order all things with public consent . For spiritual government they had no laws at all agreed upon ; but did what the pastors of their ...
... authority or ' power over them ; but officers chosen by the people , ' yearly out of themselves , to order all things with public consent . For spiritual government they had no laws at all agreed upon ; but did what the pastors of their ...
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... authority to alter the civil constitution , if it had ever been in his power . This reformation of doctrines had not removed that corruption of manners which had prevailed in Geneva ; nor that factious spirit which had so much divided ...
... authority to alter the civil constitution , if it had ever been in his power . This reformation of doctrines had not removed that corruption of manners which had prevailed in Geneva ; nor that factious spirit which had so much divided ...
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... authority to convent , controul , and punish , as far as with excommuni- cation , whoever they should think worthy ; none , either small or great , excepted . This device , ( says Hooker ) I see not how the wisest , at that time living ...
... authority to convent , controul , and punish , as far as with excommuni- cation , whoever they should think worthy ; none , either small or great , excepted . This device , ( says Hooker ) I see not how the wisest , at that time living ...
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... authority was placed in a council of two hundred , and a senate of twenty - five , who have the executive power , or adminis- tration of the government . The territories of France and Savoy come up to the very walls of Geneva ; and they ...
... authority was placed in a council of two hundred , and a senate of twenty - five , who have the executive power , or adminis- tration of the government . The territories of France and Savoy come up to the very walls of Geneva ; and they ...
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... authority of the fathers , who speak in strong terms of the presence of our Lord's body in the symbols of the eucharist ; and he entirely rejected the opinion that was ascribed to the Lutherans . However , he condemned those who admit ...
... authority of the fathers , who speak in strong terms of the presence of our Lord's body in the symbols of the eucharist ; and he entirely rejected the opinion that was ascribed to the Lutherans . However , he condemned those who admit ...
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Page 273 - My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Page 468 - Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore ? When thou, hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 104 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 468 - When thou hast done, thou has not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 240 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels...
Page 339 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips : When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 274 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 396 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The bishop of Durham readily answered, ' God forbid, sir, but you should : you are the breath of our nostrils.
Page 378 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 472 - Many that then saw his tears and heard his faint and hollow voice professing they thought the text prophetically chosen and that Dr. Donne "had preached his own funeral sermon." Being full of joy that God had enabled him to perform this desired duty, he hastened to his house; out of which he never moved till, like St. Stephen, he was carried by devout men to his grave.