 Lord had appointed it or not; he charged us, before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to...  New-England's Memorial - Page 405by Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 515 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1878 - 604 pages
...wisdom or scientific investigations. As their pastor Robinson said, in his farewell discourse, " He was confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his Holy Word." Let me not seem, my friends, to exaggerate the importance to our country of the event which we this... | |
 | John Abbot Goodwin - 1879 - 726 pages
...their faith was positive and strong, they laid down no formal creed. John Robinson taught them that " the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word," * and their covenant was " to walk in all his ways made known, or to be made known, unto them." 2 At... | |
 | Joseph Allen - 1880 - 342 pages
...followed Christ, and, if God should reveal any thing to us by any other instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his ministry." From first to last, in my youth and in my age, I have never consciously deserted this great Protestant... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1880 - 1166 pages
...followed Christ. And if God should reveal anything to us by1 any other instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any truth by his Ministery : For he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to breake forth out of... | |
 | Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County - 1880 - 656 pages
...receive it as ever you were to receive any truth of my ministry; for I am very confident the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth out of His Holy Word. It is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick and anti-Christian darkness,... | |
 | Biblical liturgy - 1881 - 286 pages
...if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of His, to be as ready to receive it as any truth by his ministry ; for he was very confident the Lord bad more light and truth yet to break forth out of His Holy Word.'1 HYMN XVIII. "Faith, Hope, Charity."—... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1882 - 418 pages
...reveal anything to us,' Winslow reports Robinson as saying, ' by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any...and light yet to break forth out of his holy Word." " Oh," said Mrs. Van Wyck, " now I remember the lines which Dr. Holmes wrote. I knew I had somewhere... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1879 - 668 pages
...followed CHRIST : and if GOD should reveal anything to us, by any other Instrument of His, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any...confident the LORD had more truth and light yet to brake out of His Holy Word. He took occasion also, miserably to bewail the state of the Reformed Churches... | |
 | - 1883 - 980 pages
...should reveal anything to them by any other instrument of his. to be as ready to receive it as ever they were to receive any truth by his ministry ; for he...was very confident the Lord had more truth and light to break forth out of His holy word. He took occasion also miserably to bewail the state and condition... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1883 - 426 pages
...receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am very confident the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth out of His Holy Word." And then how justly the good preacher rebukes those who close their souls to truth ! "As, for example,... | |
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