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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... civil power were united , where every native was supposed to be born into the church as well as the state , where baptism had become both the seal of sal- vation and the sign of citizenship , where the parish register furnished to the ...
... civil power were united , where every native was supposed to be born into the church as well as the state , where baptism had become both the seal of sal- vation and the sign of citizenship , where the parish register furnished to the ...
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... civil power was put forth to crush them . At different times and in different countries they had appeared and passed away , had flour- ished for a while in peaceful obscurity , then be- ing brought out to the light , received their ...
... civil power was put forth to crush them . At different times and in different countries they had appeared and passed away , had flour- ished for a while in peaceful obscurity , then be- ing brought out to the light , received their ...
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... civil government . Among the statesmen of the world he holds a singular pre - eminence , and comparing him with them , it is but just to say in the words of a liv- ing historian , † " He was the first in modern christendom to assert in ...
... civil government . Among the statesmen of the world he holds a singular pre - eminence , and comparing him with them , it is but just to say in the words of a liv- ing historian , † " He was the first in modern christendom to assert in ...
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... civil peace . Our grant is crowned with the king's extraordinary favor to this colony as being a banished one , in which his Majesty de- clared himself that he would experiment whether civil government could consist with such liberty of ...
... civil peace . Our grant is crowned with the king's extraordinary favor to this colony as being a banished one , in which his Majesty de- clared himself that he would experiment whether civil government could consist with such liberty of ...
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... civil order maintained , life and property secured , justice dispensed , education diffused , the peaceful arts cultivated , social con- cord cherished , and a general concert of action preserved among men of conflicting religious ...
... civil order maintained , life and property secured , justice dispensed , education diffused , the peaceful arts cultivated , social con- cord cherished , and a general concert of action preserved among men of conflicting religious ...
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Page 6 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
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 12 - Virgin, of her substance , so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the godhead and manhood, were joined together in one person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man...
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 - 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 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.