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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... honor to communicate to you the above votes ; and they are happy to assure you , that they are With great respect , Dear sir , Your ob't serv'ts , NICHOLAS BROWN , F. WAYLAND . DISCOURSE . Ir is mentioned by the father of history At a ...
... honor to communicate to you the above votes ; and they are happy to assure you , that they are With great respect , Dear sir , Your ob't serv'ts , NICHOLAS BROWN , F. WAYLAND . DISCOURSE . Ir is mentioned by the father of history At a ...
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... honor to whom honor is due , but most of all , to contemplate afresh those great principles which our fathers cherished with a love stronger than death , to bring our tribute of praise to the altar of God who enabled them to establish ...
... honor to whom honor is due , but most of all , to contemplate afresh those great principles which our fathers cherished with a love stronger than death , to bring our tribute of praise to the altar of God who enabled them to establish ...
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... honor of Rhode - Island she has never departed from . It still shines among her laws with an argument for its support in the shape of a preamble , which has rarely been sur- passed in power of thought or felicity of expres- sion ...
... honor of Rhode - Island she has never departed from . It still shines among her laws with an argument for its support in the shape of a preamble , which has rarely been sur- passed in power of thought or felicity of expres- sion ...
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... honored as the mother of many ministers . " The second point just suggested , will require a more ample notice . Roger Williams is worthy of all praise for the profound and lucid views which he took , of the nature of religious liberty ...
... honored as the mother of many ministers . " The second point just suggested , will require a more ample notice . Roger Williams is worthy of all praise for the profound and lucid views which he took , of the nature of religious liberty ...
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... honored , ) who yet I say , by search- ing the holy scriptures grew so excellent a text- uary , or scripture - learned man , that few of those high rabbis that scorn to mend or make a shoe , could aptly or readily from the holy ...
... honored , ) who yet I say , by search- ing the holy scriptures grew so excellent a text- uary , or scripture - learned man , that few of those high rabbis that scorn to mend or make a shoe , could aptly or readily from the holy ...
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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.