Letters from an Absent Brother: Containing Some Account of the Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France in the Summer of 1823, Volume 2Wilson, 1827 |
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... faith only- he holds the fallibility of the church exposes the futility of praying for the dead , and the sinfulness of the idolatrous practices then supported by the Roman See . The val- leys of Piedmont , inhabited now by the Wal ...
... faith only- he holds the fallibility of the church exposes the futility of praying for the dead , and the sinfulness of the idolatrous practices then supported by the Roman See . The val- leys of Piedmont , inhabited now by the Wal ...
Page 122
... faith had been much shaken by the total want of a reformed worship . I said all I could to confirm her mind in the doctrine of Christ our Lord . Beggary and misery still prevail . Crowds of wretched deformed sup- plicants surround us ...
... faith had been much shaken by the total want of a reformed worship . I said all I could to confirm her mind in the doctrine of Christ our Lord . Beggary and misery still prevail . Crowds of wretched deformed sup- plicants surround us ...
Page 128
... faith and love of Christ were smothered at the bottom of these superstitions . His habits of devotion , his self- denial , his zeal , his fortitude , his humility , and * Referred to page 90 . especially his unbounded and almost unpa ...
... faith and love of Christ were smothered at the bottom of these superstitions . His habits of devotion , his self- denial , his zeal , his fortitude , his humility , and * Referred to page 90 . especially his unbounded and almost unpa ...
Page 140
... faith , and also in spirit and in truth . Every thing depends , believe me , on your showing yourself to be a bishop who is blameless , as the Apostle Paul teaches . This you will easily accom- plish , the grace of God assisting you ...
... faith , and also in spirit and in truth . Every thing depends , believe me , on your showing yourself to be a bishop who is blameless , as the Apostle Paul teaches . This you will easily accom- plish , the grace of God assisting you ...
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... faith and love of our Lord Jesus Christ , sink into nothing before the frightful idolatry and superstition of Popery . Disputes about circumstantials are impertinent divisions odious love should unite every heart , where main and ...
... faith and love of our Lord Jesus Christ , sink into nothing before the frightful idolatry and superstition of Popery . Disputes about circumstantials are impertinent divisions odious love should unite every heart , where main and ...
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Page 292 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Page 140 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 227 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Page 43 - O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto Thee.
Page 98 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 98 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 165 - The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.
Page 165 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 302 - Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead : and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ : and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood ; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 144 - I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom...