Wilson's Plea in the Case of Lyman Beecher, D.D.: Made Before the Synod of Cincinnati, October, 1835R.P. Brooks., 1837 - 120 pages |
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... Considering the state of the Pres- byterian Church at that time , ( fall of 1832 , ) and especially the condition of the Presbytery of Cincinnati , it could not have been expected that Dr. Beecher's reception could have been cordial on ...
... Considering the state of the Pres- byterian Church at that time , ( fall of 1832 , ) and especially the condition of the Presbytery of Cincinnati , it could not have been expected that Dr. Beecher's reception could have been cordial on ...
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... consider it as a link in a chain of errors leading to the most dangerous results . But whatever may be your opinion respec- ting its importance , you cannot deny that it is sustained by the evidence . I now proceed to the consideration ...
... consider it as a link in a chain of errors leading to the most dangerous results . But whatever may be your opinion respec- ting its importance , you cannot deny that it is sustained by the evidence . I now proceed to the consideration ...
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... considering it a calamity for the doctrines of our standards to be universally adopted . " Here is the charge and the proofs . Now I ask what is slan- der ? To slander , is to belie , to censure falsely , to bring up an evil report ...
... considering it a calamity for the doctrines of our standards to be universally adopted . " Here is the charge and the proofs . Now I ask what is slan- der ? To slander , is to belie , to censure falsely , to bring up an evil report ...
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... consider man no more account- able than a stone or an oyster . Moderator , there is no dangerous error from Arminianism down to the lowest Unitarianism - there is no slander against the orthodox - to which Dr. Beecher's " select system ...
... consider man no more account- able than a stone or an oyster . Moderator , there is no dangerous error from Arminianism down to the lowest Unitarianism - there is no slander against the orthodox - to which Dr. Beecher's " select system ...
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... consider the proceedings to have been uncon- stitutional , irregular , and , of course , not for edification . ' A true extract from the minutes of the Synod of N. York . Attest , ELIHU W. BALDWIN , Stated Clerk . " In connexion with ...
... consider the proceedings to have been uncon- stitutional , irregular , and , of course , not for edification . ' A true extract from the minutes of the Synod of N. York . Attest , ELIHU W. BALDWIN , Stated Clerk . " In connexion with ...
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Page 68 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 72 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, GOD shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, GOD shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 76 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 68 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 103 - AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel : only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Page 26 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was IMPUTED, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
Page 20 - By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
Page 90 - Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 75 - They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Page 114 - Adam's sin, and in a hereditary depravity ; and this continued to be the received doctrine of the churches of New England until after the time of Edwards. He adopted the views of the Reformers on the subject of original sin, as consisting in the imputation of Adam's sin, and a depraved nature transmitted by descent. But, after him, this...