An Historical Discourse Delivered at the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Providence, November 7, 1839B. Cranston, 1839 - 192 pages |
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... opinions before the law , and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton , the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor . " From first to last * Judge Pitman's Centennial Address , Providence , 1836 . + Bancroft's History of the ...
... opinions before the law , and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton , the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor . " From first to last * Judge Pitman's Centennial Address , Providence , 1836 . + Bancroft's History of the ...
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... opinions not only to attain the great ends of civil government , but also to promote the progress of society . It is a glorious result to which we bear witness , one which our forefathers saw only by the eye of faith , but saw so ...
... opinions not only to attain the great ends of civil government , but also to promote the progress of society . It is a glorious result to which we bear witness , one which our forefathers saw only by the eye of faith , but saw so ...
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... opinions so adverse to their ecclesiastical polity , he went to Salem , where he was well received , and chosen teacher by the church . At this the court in Boston marvelled much , and raised such an excitement against him , that in ...
... opinions so adverse to their ecclesiastical polity , he went to Salem , where he was well received , and chosen teacher by the church . At this the court in Boston marvelled much , and raised such an excitement against him , that in ...
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... opinion that an oath is an act of worship , was defended by an argument remarkable for its simplicity and strength . But the worst of all was , declaring that " the magistrate ought not to punish the breach of the first table ...
... opinion that an oath is an act of worship , was defended by an argument remarkable for its simplicity and strength . But the worst of all was , declaring that " the magistrate ought not to punish the breach of the first table ...
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... opinions , and that they intended to depart together to erect a new plantation about the Narragansett Bay , the court feared the spread of his contagious doctrines from thence through all the churches of their commonwealth , and re ...
... opinions , and that they intended to depart together to erect a new plantation about the Narragansett Bay , the court feared the spread of his contagious doctrines from thence through all the churches of their commonwealth , and re ...
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Page 23 - 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 123 - O ! if my Lord would come and meet, My soul would stretch her wings in haste, Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Page 50 - 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 137 - 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 50 - 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 150 - 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 137 - 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 125 - Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon...
Page 50 - 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 23 - But I must herewithal exhort you to take heed what you receive as truth; examine it, consider it, and compare it with other scriptures of truth, before you receive it; for it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.