The Ancient Platforms of the Congregational Churches of New England: With a Digest of Rules and Usages in Connecticut, and an Appendix, Containig Notices of Congregational Bodies in Other StatesE. Hunt, 1843 - 351 pages |
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... truth , as many little streams may flow from a single . fountain . " ] The churches in Connecticut have generally had particular confessions , though the associa- ted churches in Litchfield South , in 1828 , adopt- ed common articles of ...
... truth , as many little streams may flow from a single . fountain . " ] The churches in Connecticut have generally had particular confessions , though the associa- ted churches in Litchfield South , in 1828 , adopt- ed common articles of ...
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... truths of the Word of God . They counted it the glory of their fathers , " that they heartily pro- fessed the only rule of their religion , from the very first , to be the Holy Scriptures , according whereunto , so far as they were ...
... truths of the Word of God . They counted it the glory of their fathers , " that they heartily pro- fessed the only rule of their religion , from the very first , to be the Holy Scriptures , according whereunto , so far as they were ...
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... truths those chapters contain , it was found suf- ficient provision was not made for securing the blessings desired . The Massachusetts synod which met in 1662 , fourteen years after , acknow- ledged " that some few particulars ...
... truths those chapters contain , it was found suf- ficient provision was not made for securing the blessings desired . The Massachusetts synod which met in 1662 , fourteen years after , acknow- ledged " that some few particulars ...
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... truth in these more controversial matters , this method might be a blessed means of our better unanimity and success in our Lord's work , for the gather- ing and edifying of the body of Christ , for which they bespoke the concurring ...
... truth in these more controversial matters , this method might be a blessed means of our better unanimity and success in our Lord's work , for the gather- ing and edifying of the body of Christ , for which they bespoke the concurring ...
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... truth of the gospel , which generally is re- ceived in all the reformed churches of Christ in Europe , so especially we desire not to vary from the doctrine of faith and truth held forth by the churches of our native country . For ...
... truth of the gospel , which generally is re- ceived in all the reformed churches of Christ in Europe , so especially we desire not to vary from the doctrine of faith and truth held forth by the churches of our native country . For ...
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Page 239 - Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament," do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death : the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with, or under the bread and wine ; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outWard senses.
Page 243 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Page 58 - The object of this society shall be to christianize the heathen in North America, and to support and promote Christian knowledge in the new settlements, within the United States; and both shall be pursued as circumstances shall point out.
Page 191 - ALL those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call by his word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...
Page 185 - ... being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance: so that two whole perfect and distinct natures, the God-head and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion ; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man.
Page 192 - Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the law of that religion they do profess; and to assert and maintain that they may is very pernicious, and to be detested.
Page 235 - The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered; yet notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance, the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghost, to such (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will, in his appointed time.
Page 166 - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Page 146 - Church; to receive complaints in cases of maladministration, and authoritatively to determine the same: which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the Word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission, not only for their agreement with the Word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God, appointed thereunto in his Word.
Page 217 - God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.