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... respect , more satisfactory to our conscience , to lay down our arms at the feet of all - conquering truth , and to proclaim ourselves vanquished , than by means of a controversial sleight - of - hand , to seem to other minds triumphant ...
... respect , more satisfactory to our conscience , to lay down our arms at the feet of all - conquering truth , and to proclaim ourselves vanquished , than by means of a controversial sleight - of - hand , to seem to other minds triumphant ...
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... respect , unlike himself ? Is it not more seemly , more in tone with the intelligent veneration which should distinguish his worshippers , to take it for granted that every act of the Supreme is but an outward shape into which his ...
... respect , unlike himself ? Is it not more seemly , more in tone with the intelligent veneration which should distinguish his worshippers , to take it for granted that every act of the Supreme is but an outward shape into which his ...
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... held of their duty in respect to the movement against establishments , they have been accustomed to regard as the natural and legitimate offVOL . XVII . C spring of an attachment to the vital doctrines of the IN PREACHING THE GOSPEL . 17.
... held of their duty in respect to the movement against establishments , they have been accustomed to regard as the natural and legitimate offVOL . XVII . C spring of an attachment to the vital doctrines of the IN PREACHING THE GOSPEL . 17.
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... respect is due to the deliberate judgment of men occupying eminent stations in the church . But how should it operate ? Not in silencing inquiry , but in making it tenfold more searching and more careful . They are not infallible . They ...
... respect is due to the deliberate judgment of men occupying eminent stations in the church . But how should it operate ? Not in silencing inquiry , but in making it tenfold more searching and more careful . They are not infallible . They ...
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... respect of those means , it behoves him to reflect whether his objections to them be merely of taste or of judgment , and whether the fact that they are already in action be not a weighty argument against their hasty rejection . Some ...
... respect of those means , it behoves him to reflect whether his objections to them be merely of taste or of judgment , and whether the fact that they are already in action be not a weighty argument against their hasty rejection . Some ...
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Page 10 - And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Page 315 - Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Page 525 - Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord cannot be proved by Holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 291 - Scriptures contain 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 faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 681 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 639 - Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 22 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 278 - The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills : They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Page 297 - Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...
Page 34 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.