American Unitarianism, Or, A Brief History of "the Progress and Present State of the Unitarian Churches in America"Nathaniel Willis, 1816 - 48 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 31 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 39 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughterin-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 4 - He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Page 30 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 21 - GOD of GOD, Light of Light, Very GOD of very GOD, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the FATHER ; By Whom all things were made, Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the HOLY GHOST of the Virgin Mary, And was made Man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Page 41 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 23 - For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers...
Page 9 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 61 - The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be God and man, in two distinct natures, and one person for ever.
Page 19 - For his letters (say they) are weighty and powerful ; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.