The Religions and Religious Ceremonies of All Nations: Accurately, Impartially, and Fully Described; Including Christians, Mohammedans, Jews, Brahmins, and Pagans, of All Sects and DenominationsSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1835 - 636 pages |
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... Worship in the Armenian Church . [ Page 117. ] The Priest in the act of pronouncing a solemn Bene . diction on the People . Bethlehem . [ Page 129. ] The holy town or village of Bethlehem , where our Saviour was born , is faithfully ...
... Worship in the Armenian Church . [ Page 117. ] The Priest in the act of pronouncing a solemn Bene . diction on the People . Bethlehem . [ Page 129. ] The holy town or village of Bethlehem , where our Saviour was born , is faithfully ...
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... Worship of Xekia . [ Page 423. ] This is one of the modern Chinese deities , seated under a canopy ; priests reading and reciting his praises before him . Religious Ceremonies of the Chinese . [ Page 423. ] Various modes of offering ...
... Worship of Xekia . [ Page 423. ] This is one of the modern Chinese deities , seated under a canopy ; priests reading and reciting his praises before him . Religious Ceremonies of the Chinese . [ Page 423. ] Various modes of offering ...
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... Worship , of this Island . Idols in Easter Island . [ Page 527. ] European travellers are here described in the act of measuring and drawing the figure of one of the wooden gods of the South Sea Islands . A Morai , in Tongataboo ...
... Worship , of this Island . Idols in Easter Island . [ Page 527. ] European travellers are here described in the act of measuring and drawing the figure of one of the wooden gods of the South Sea Islands . A Morai , in Tongataboo ...
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... Worship , and Burying place in this Island , as mentioned by Captain Cooke , and other circumnavigators . Invoking the Dead . [ Page 512. ] The friends of the deceased are here calling upon him to tell them what caused him to die . It ...
... Worship , and Burying place in this Island , as mentioned by Captain Cooke , and other circumnavigators . Invoking the Dead . [ Page 512. ] The friends of the deceased are here calling upon him to tell them what caused him to die . It ...
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... worship the saints departed , or their relics , as their saviours or redeemers ; but simply as infe- rior mediators , being near the throne of God , and having constant access to His divine presence . They believe that the prayers of ...
... worship the saints departed , or their relics , as their saviours or redeemers ; but simply as infe- rior mediators , being near the throne of God , and having constant access to His divine presence . They believe that the prayers of ...
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Page 213 - THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God : Wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 16 - THE Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God.
Page 188 - Faith ; which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.
Page 144 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 233 - In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
Page 187 - Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son : and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.
Page 215 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God.
Page 256 - The Unitarian Society for promoting Christian Knowledge and the practice of Virtue, by the distribution of books.
Page 23 - Is any sick among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church ; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the LORD : and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Page 210 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance...