The Dissenting Gentleman's Answer to Mr. White's Three Letters, in which a Separation from the Establishment is Fully Justified: The Charge of Schism is Refuted and Retorted, EtcJ. Waugh, 1752 |
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... hope . So far , Sir , from this , that the more carefully I examine the Grounds of my Sepa- ration , the more thoroughly I am convinced of its Lawfulness and Expedience ; that ' tis a Debt I owe to GOD , to Liberty , to Truth , and an ...
... hope . So far , Sir , from this , that the more carefully I examine the Grounds of my Sepa- ration , the more thoroughly I am convinced of its Lawfulness and Expedience ; that ' tis a Debt I owe to GOD , to Liberty , to Truth , and an ...
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... hope by this Time you begin to think more favourably of us ; and to justify our Principles as truly catholic and generous ; the only Broad- Bottom on which the Peace of the Church can be folidly fixed ; and that the Guilt of the Se ...
... hope by this Time you begin to think more favourably of us ; and to justify our Principles as truly catholic and generous ; the only Broad- Bottom on which the Peace of the Church can be folidly fixed ; and that the Guilt of the Se ...
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... hope , not a Minister among us but would publickly disown and renounce his Subscription . & I fhould now proceed , Sir , to the Examina- tion of other Parts of your Letters , to fhew the great Infufficiency of your Arguments and Ob ...
... hope , not a Minister among us but would publickly disown and renounce his Subscription . & I fhould now proceed , Sir , to the Examina- tion of other Parts of your Letters , to fhew the great Infufficiency of your Arguments and Ob ...
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... hope , with freedom to make my Defence against your vi- gorous Attacks ; and to prefent my Objections , and the Grounds of my Diffent , in as strong a Light as I am able . The Part of a publick Monitor , and of my Inftruc- tor in this ...
... hope , with freedom to make my Defence against your vi- gorous Attacks ; and to prefent my Objections , and the Grounds of my Diffent , in as strong a Light as I am able . The Part of a publick Monitor , and of my Inftruc- tor in this ...
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... in its we fhould have had the Grace , I hope , foon to treat it as a Befome of Deftruction , and to have doom'd it to the Flames . × Lett , III . p . 42 But But the Giving the Chriftian Name in Baptifm હેડં to ( 24 )
... in its we fhould have had the Grace , I hope , foon to treat it as a Befome of Deftruction , and to have doom'd it to the Flames . × Lett , III . p . 42 But But the Giving the Chriftian Name in Baptifm હેડં to ( 24 )
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Page 89 - I will take no man's liberty of judgment from him ; neither shall any man take mine from me : I will think no man the worse man, nor the worse Christian : I will love no man the less for differing in opinion from me. And what measure I mete to others, I expect from them again. I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to require any more of any man than this, — to believe the Scripture to be God's word, to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according...
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Page 8 - Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the •Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.
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Page 53 - Now if you will compare this with the Church of Rome, not as it was in the beginning, but as it is at present, and hath been for the space of nine hundred years and odd ; you shall well perceive the state thereof to be so far wide from the nature of the true church, that nothing can be more.
Page 39 - This they readily com" plied with: for, you must know, that sort of " men are taught rather to obey than understand. " And yet, that Bariholomew-day, was fatal to " our church and religion, by throwing out a very " great number of worthy, learned, pious, and " orthodox divines, who could not come up to " this oath, and other things in that act.
Page 73 - Whosoever, through his private judgment, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the traditions and ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the word of God, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly, (that others may fear to do the like,) as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurteth the authority of the magistrate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren.
Page 4 - That the CHURCH hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in matters of faith.