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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... knowledge of which , from various sources , is now accessible by all of us , it may be well just to glance at an outline of his life . The best accounts of him state that he was born in Wales , in 1599. From a reinark of his own , it ...
... knowledge of which , from various sources , is now accessible by all of us , it may be well just to glance at an outline of his life . The best accounts of him state that he was born in Wales , in 1599. From a reinark of his own , it ...
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... knowledge of eter- nal life , that he was preparing the means of his own temporal salvation . Yet so it was . The knowledge of their language , which he thus gained , enabled him to hold intercourse with them in the wilderness , to ...
... knowledge of eter- nal life , that he was preparing the means of his own temporal salvation . Yet so it was . The knowledge of their language , which he thus gained , enabled him to hold intercourse with them in the wilderness , to ...
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... world should come so lately out of such thick anti - christian darkness , and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once . " * 3 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE . 25 had adopted to their legitimate results. He ...
... world should come so lately out of such thick anti - christian darkness , and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once . " * 3 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE . 25 had adopted to their legitimate results. He ...
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... knowledge of the force of language would lead him to unite with the whole Greek church , when they say of the sprinkling or pouring practised in Western Europe , " it is no baptism . " As to the subjects of it , he could find no warrant ...
... knowledge of the force of language would lead him to unite with the whole Greek church , when they say of the sprinkling or pouring practised in Western Europe , " it is no baptism . " As to the subjects of it , he could find no warrant ...
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... knowledge , the Pro- tector , Lord President Lawrence , and others at helm , with Sir Henry Vane , ( retired into Lin- colnshire , yet daily missed and courted for his assistance , ) are not so full of that faith of mira- cles , but ...
... knowledge , the Pro- tector , Lord President Lawrence , and others at helm , with Sir Henry Vane , ( retired into Lin- colnshire , yet daily missed and courted for his assistance , ) are not so full of that faith of mira- cles , but ...
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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.