An Historical Discourse Delivered at the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Providence, November 7, 1839B. Cranston ; Boston, Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1839 - 192 pages |
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... Colleges in the University of Cam- bridge ; and Vavasor Powell , a celebrated Evan- gelist of Wales , who was as devoted to the spread of the gospel in that principality , as were after- wards , Thomas Delaune , Benjamin Keach , and ...
... Colleges in the University of Cam- bridge ; and Vavasor Powell , a celebrated Evan- gelist of Wales , who was as devoted to the spread of the gospel in that principality , as were after- wards , Thomas Delaune , Benjamin Keach , and ...
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... college and the church . He , him- self , is spoken of as a man highly esteemed for his talents and his piety , who declining most of the public offices which were urged on his * Church Records , p . 6 . acceptance , discharged the ...
... college and the church . He , him- self , is spoken of as a man highly esteemed for his talents and his piety , who declining most of the public offices which were urged on his * Church Records , p . 6 . acceptance , discharged the ...
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... College , which had been commenced in 1765 , under his direction , at Warren . It was for several years a matter of doubt where the college would be permanently established , but in 1770 , it was determined by the Corporation , that the ...
... College , which had been commenced in 1765 , under his direction , at Warren . It was for several years a matter of doubt where the college would be permanently established , but in 1770 , it was determined by the Corporation , that the ...
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... college was broken up . The young men of the former were draughted for the army , and the edifice of the latter was used first as barracks for our mi- litia , and then as a hospital for the French army under Count Rochambeau . For the ...
... college was broken up . The young men of the former were draughted for the army , and the edifice of the latter was used first as barracks for our mi- litia , and then as a hospital for the French army under Count Rochambeau . For the ...
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... College began to revive , Dr. Manning felt that the number of his duties and his cares were too great for him . On that account , in 1791 , he resigned his pas- toral office , and preached his farewell sermon in April of that year . His ...
... College began to revive , Dr. Manning felt that the number of his duties and his cares were too great for him . On that account , in 1791 , he resigned his pas- toral office , and preached his farewell sermon in April of that year . His ...
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Page 25 - I am verily persuaded that the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His Holy Word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the Reformed Churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no further than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 52 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 139 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 52 - Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal...
Page 152 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 139 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills, and they To heaven.
Page 96 - Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection ; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Page 52 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when He ascended, and his Apostles after Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered...
Page 35 - Sixthly, it is the will and command of God that ( since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus ) a permission of the most Paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or Antichristian consciences and worships be granted to all men in all nations and countries...
Page 130 - Several acts of the Virginia Assembly of 1659, 1662, and 1693, had made it penal in parents to refuse to have their children baptized; had prohibited the unlawful assembling of Quakers; had made it penal for any master of a vessel to bring a Quaker into the State; had ordered those already here...