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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... minds , destined soon to expire without leaving scarcely a trace of its existence . Baxter said , that at one time when England had little experience of its tendency and consequents , people used to speak of it as a temporary conceit ...
... minds , destined soon to expire without leaving scarcely a trace of its existence . Baxter said , that at one time when England had little experience of its tendency and consequents , people used to speak of it as a temporary conceit ...
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... mind , destined only for a short period to ruffle the surface of society and then for ever disap- pear . Yet ... minds the principle reigned with power , and amidst storms of adversity they prophesied that its day would come HISTORICAL ...
... mind , destined only for a short period to ruffle the surface of society and then for ever disap- pear . Yet ... minds the principle reigned with power , and amidst storms of adversity they prophesied that its day would come HISTORICAL ...
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... Universe , and declared the con- * Judge Story's Centennial Address , Salem , 1828 , p . 57 . victions of his mind on this point when he said 2 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE . 13 this principle has been fondly cherished through- ...
... Universe , and declared the con- * Judge Story's Centennial Address , Salem , 1828 , p . 57 . victions of his mind on this point when he said 2 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE . 13 this principle has been fondly cherished through- ...
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William Hague. victions of his mind on this point when he said " all the world may see by his Majesty's de- claration and engagements before his return , and his declarations and Parliament speeches since , and many suitable actings ...
William Hague. victions of his mind on this point when he said " all the world may see by his Majesty's de- claration and engagements before his return , and his declarations and Parliament speeches since , and many suitable actings ...
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... mind was naturally clear sighted and impul- sive , and doubtless ever disposed to carry a principle out to its just conclusion or else to give it up altogether . He had already obtained lucid views of the spiritual nature of the ...
... mind was naturally clear sighted and impul- sive , and doubtless ever disposed to carry a principle out to its just conclusion or else to give it up altogether . He had already obtained lucid views of the spiritual nature of the ...
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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...