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... faith , than this strange and unnatural combination ? And will they not lead the objects of their bounty to suppose , that each admits the peculiar tenets of the rest to be really contained in scripture . A more ingenious project for ...
... faith , than this strange and unnatural combination ? And will they not lead the objects of their bounty to suppose , that each admits the peculiar tenets of the rest to be really contained in scripture . A more ingenious project for ...
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... Faith . And must not all who are held in Popery purely by the bondage of thought ( which is the care of the great body of its professors , ) if they had been born of Jewish or Heathen parents , and had taken the same meritorious course ...
... Faith . And must not all who are held in Popery purely by the bondage of thought ( which is the care of the great body of its professors , ) if they had been born of Jewish or Heathen parents , and had taken the same meritorious course ...
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... faith , they will perceive clearly that they are obliged , on their own prin- ciples , to compare their doctrines with the only infallible rule of faith , the Word of God . Ac- cording to that rule , they will discover that they are ...
... faith , they will perceive clearly that they are obliged , on their own prin- ciples , to compare their doctrines with the only infallible rule of faith , the Word of God . Ac- cording to that rule , they will discover that they are ...
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... faith we should not denominate ourselves catho- lics ( or English Catholics , ) and this would oblige the Romanists for distinction's sake to call their proselytes ( English ) Roman Ca- tholics , the absurdity whereof would , in a great ...
... faith we should not denominate ourselves catho- lics ( or English Catholics , ) and this would oblige the Romanists for distinction's sake to call their proselytes ( English ) Roman Ca- tholics , the absurdity whereof would , in a great ...
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... FAITH ...... .... 319 ...... 329 INTRODUCTION . THERE is no article of the Christian Faith CONTENTS .
... FAITH ...... .... 319 ...... 329 INTRODUCTION . THERE is no article of the Christian Faith CONTENTS .
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Page 262 - HOLY Scripture containeth 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 the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 134 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Page 94 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 97 - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Page 22 - Then saith he unto his disciples, ' The harvest truly is plenteous, but ' the labourers are few ; pray ye therefore the ' Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
Page 119 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 21 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few : pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 137 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears ; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Page 311 - God's word or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen, do most plainly testify : but that only prerogative which we see to have been given always to all godly princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or .temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil doers.
Page 109 - And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.