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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... nature of the christian dispensation , nor the full meaning of the truth that the weapons of christ- ianity are not carnal but spiritual , not carrying out in all its length the maxim of Chillingworth , * Winthrop's Journal , p . 174 ...
... nature of the christian dispensation , nor the full meaning of the truth that the weapons of christ- ianity are not carnal but spiritual , not carrying out in all its length the maxim of Chillingworth , * Winthrop's Journal , p . 174 ...
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... nature and opera- tion , were inspired with a strange dread of its influence , and a feeling of relentless hostility toward it . Three hundred years are just com- pleted since the edict of Henry VIII , which proclaimed a general pardon ...
... nature and opera- tion , were inspired with a strange dread of its influence , and a feeling of relentless hostility toward it . Three hundred years are just com- pleted since the edict of Henry VIII , which proclaimed a general pardon ...
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... nature burn In wild humanitie- God's providence is rich to his , Let none distrustful be ; In wilderness in great distress , These ravens have fed me . Lost many a time , I've had no guide , No house but hollow tree ; In stormy winter ...
... nature burn In wild humanitie- God's providence is rich to his , Let none distrustful be ; In wilderness in great distress , These ravens have fed me . Lost many a time , I've had no guide , No house but hollow tree ; In stormy winter ...
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... nature of the Christian dis- pensation , of the supremacy of Christ's word as the rule of faith and practice , of the free and vol- untary character of genuine religion . It is not surprising therefore that he became dissatisfied in ...
... nature of the Christian dis- pensation , of the supremacy of Christ's word as the rule of faith and practice , of the free and vol- untary character of genuine religion . It is not surprising therefore that he became dissatisfied in ...
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... nature of religious liberty , and of its be- ing an essential element in the constitution of a christian church . He did not consider the belief of it necessary to salvation , but a church established by law , and enforcing its creed ...
... nature of religious liberty , and of its be- ing an essential element in the constitution of a christian church . He did not consider the belief of it necessary to salvation , but a church established by law , and enforcing its creed ...
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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...