The Free Communionist : Or Unrestricted Communion of the Lord's Supper with All True Believers, Advocated: And Objections of Restricted Communionists, Considered: in Four EssaysTrustees of the Freewill Baptist Connection, 1841 - 214 pages |
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... answer to that prayer , and daily seeking its accomplishment ? Union is the strength and beauty of the church . " Behold , how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like the precious ointment upon ...
... answer to that prayer , and daily seeking its accomplishment ? Union is the strength and beauty of the church . " Behold , how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like the precious ointment upon ...
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... answer , and the care taken to maintain an invariable practice in the churches in accordance with it , it might be expected that we should be im- mediately pointed to the chapter and verse contain- ing the requirement . But no ; not a ...
... answer , and the care taken to maintain an invariable practice in the churches in accordance with it , it might be expected that we should be im- mediately pointed to the chapter and verse contain- ing the requirement . But no ; not a ...
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... answer this question in the affir- mative , unless it can be proved that baptism is the door into the church . This cannot be done , for Christ has expressly settled this point . " He that entereth not by the door into the SHEEPFOLD ...
... answer this question in the affir- mative , unless it can be proved that baptism is the door into the church . This cannot be done , for Christ has expressly settled this point . " He that entereth not by the door into the SHEEPFOLD ...
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... Answer ; repentance is a doctrine common to God's ministry from the fall of Adam to the end of time . The preaching it , is the same thing in every age . It was common to the ministry of Noah , Moses , John Baptist , and St. Paul . But ...
... Answer ; repentance is a doctrine common to God's ministry from the fall of Adam to the end of time . The preaching it , is the same thing in every age . It was common to the ministry of Noah , Moses , John Baptist , and St. Paul . But ...
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... answered , " This is the work of God , that ye believe on him whom he hath sent . ” A true and understanding participation of the ele- ments of the Lord's supper , is the outward expres- sion of that inward faith ; the visible ...
... answered , " This is the work of God , that ye believe on him whom he hath sent . ” A true and understanding participation of the ele- ments of the Lord's supper , is the outward expres- sion of that inward faith ; the visible ...
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Page 38 - And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members, every one of them, in the body as it hath pleased Him.
Page 64 - Then, said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him, which should come after him, that is on Christ Jesus.
Page 37 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body : so also is Christ. — For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free ; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 213 - The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 204 - FURTHERMORE, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Page 85 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 77 - After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in My Blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till He come.
Page 38 - That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 49 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 78 - I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.