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... society to which he be- longed ; the first volume contains the particulars of his Biography . GEORGE WHITFIELD ( founder of the Calvinist Methodists ) was born , 1714 , at Gloucester , where he received the usual school education , and ...
... society to which he be- longed ; the first volume contains the particulars of his Biography . GEORGE WHITFIELD ( founder of the Calvinist Methodists ) was born , 1714 , at Gloucester , where he received the usual school education , and ...
Page xvii
... society was instituted . Like his associate , Mr. Whitfield , being excluded the churches , he preached in the open air , and visited America , as well as the West India Islands , where also he has many followers . He built a handsome ...
... society was instituted . Like his associate , Mr. Whitfield , being excluded the churches , he preached in the open air , and visited America , as well as the West India Islands , where also he has many followers . He built a handsome ...
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... Society . CHINESE RELIGION , THE Chinese religion is involved in great mys- tery . Father Amiot , after the most assiduous re- searches on the subject , comes to this conclusion : " The Chinese ( says he ) are a distinct people , who ...
... Society . CHINESE RELIGION , THE Chinese religion is involved in great mys- tery . Father Amiot , after the most assiduous re- searches on the subject , comes to this conclusion : " The Chinese ( says he ) are a distinct people , who ...
Page 82
... societies , which are called churches . A Christian church is a society or congregation of men and women , who are called out from the vicious world by the preaching of the gospel , and are regulated in all the parts of their ritual ...
... societies , which are called churches . A Christian church is a society or congregation of men and women , who are called out from the vicious world by the preaching of the gospel , and are regulated in all the parts of their ritual ...
Page 103
... society , than de- structive to religion . " The corrupt state of the church prior to the Reformation , is acknowledged by an author who was both abundantly able to judge concerning this matter , and who was not over forward to confess ...
... society , than de- structive to religion . " The corrupt state of the church prior to the Reformation , is acknowledged by an author who was both abundantly able to judge concerning this matter , and who was not over forward to confess ...
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Page 223 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 263 - If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
Page viii - Trust ye not in lying words, saying: — "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord are these.
Page 83 - A. — In the exposition of the faith by the Eastern Patriarchs it is said that the word Transubstantiation is not to be taken to define the manner in which the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of the Lord...
Page 224 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Page 104 - I do not understand the doctrine of Luther, or Calvin, or Melancthon ; nor the confession of Augusta, or Geneva, nor the catechism of Heidelberg, nor the articles of the church of England, no nor the harmony of protestant confessions ; but that wherein they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater harmony, as a perfect rule of their faith and actions, that is, the Bible. The Bible, I say, the Bible only is the religion of protestants.
Page 87 - ... even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see; and as far as the...
Page 249 - On this occasion, it would ill become me to conceal the joy I have felt in perceiving the fraternal affection, which appears to increase every day among the friends of genuine religion. It affords edifying prospects, indeed, to see Christians of different denominations dwell together in more charity, and conduct themselves in respect to each other with a more Christian-like spirit, than ever they have done in any former age, or in any other nation.
Page 87 - May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by his authority, that of his blessed Apostles, Peter, and Paul, and of the most holy Pope, granted and committed to me in these parts do absolve thee, first from all ecclesiastical censures in whatever manner they have...
Page 196 - It is all old wives' fables to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day.