Fifty Years Among the Baptists. by David Benedict ... |
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Page 71 - For freedom of conscience the town was first planted ; Persuasion, not force, was used by the people. This church Is the oldest, and has not recanted, Enjoying and granting bell, temple and steeple.
Page 330 - Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. 21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
Page 334 - Christian sacraments and worship, and establishing whatever regulations were requisite for the newly adopted faith ; leaving the machinery (if I may so speak) of government unchanged ; the rulers of synagogues, elders, and other officers (whether spiritual or ecclesiastical, or both) being already provided in the existing institutions.
Page 382 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happened to break off I...
Page 380 - Avoid philosophical and historical observations, and all such as belong to rhetoric ; or, if you do use them, do not insist on them, and choose only those which give either some light to the text, or heighten its pathos and beauty ; all others must be...
Page 154 - That three beings should be one being, is a proposition which contradicts reason, that is, our reason, but it does not from thence follow, that it can not be true; for there are many propositions which contradict our reason, and yet they are demonstrably true.
Page 330 - Jews: and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
Page 147 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, 1 put away childish things.
Page 396 - ... the settling of differences, in which whole families may be interested, and in which it is extremely difficult to avoid the suspicion of partiality. In all cases of personal offence, the rule laid down by our Lord, in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew, ought to be attended to ; and no such offence ought to be admitted before a church, till the precept of Christ has been first complied with by the party or parties concerned.
Page 411 - Well, my man," resumed his uncle, " remember that people like her have souls as well as their betters ; and that a minister's business is to feed the poor and the illiterate as well as the rich and the educated.