Congregationalists in America: A Popular History of Their Origin, Belief, Polity, Growth and WorkJ.A. Hill & Company, 1894 - 552 pages |
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Page ix
... natural world . To try to reverse the process in churches is irrational in theory , and practically as dangerous , history shows , as an attempt to set the growing tree on its branches instead of its roots . The Christian life in ...
... natural world . To try to reverse the process in churches is irrational in theory , and practically as dangerous , history shows , as an attempt to set the growing tree on its branches instead of its roots . The Christian life in ...
Page xii
... nature , a catholic system , in a sense and to a degree in which none surpasses it . It recognizes all assemblies of disciples holding the Head and permanently associated for His service as true churches , whether or not wearing its ...
... nature , a catholic system , in a sense and to a degree in which none surpasses it . It recognizes all assemblies of disciples holding the Head and permanently associated for His service as true churches , whether or not wearing its ...
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... natural . The apostles and other disciples proclaimed Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah foretold by the prophets . They told how he went about doing good , working miracles and declaring himself to be the manifestation of God the Father ...
... natural . The apostles and other disciples proclaimed Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah foretold by the prophets . They told how he went about doing good , working miracles and declaring himself to be the manifestation of God the Father ...
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... natural successors of the Paulicians , and their descend- ants remain to this day . The most that we know of the religious movements which these names represent we have to learn from their enemies , for the Catholic Church , as it ...
... natural successors of the Paulicians , and their descend- ants remain to this day . The most that we know of the religious movements which these names represent we have to learn from their enemies , for the Catholic Church , as it ...
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... nature and unbalanced judgment . After a while he drew off a part of the church and formed another close by . In these discords the Scrooby emigrants had no share , and they foresaw that for the sake of peace it would be best for them ...
... nature and unbalanced judgment . After a while he drew off a part of the church and formed another close by . In these discords the Scrooby emigrants had no share , and they foresaw that for the sake of peace it would be best for them ...
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Popular passages
Page 519 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 85 - 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 receive any truth by his ministry ; for he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 83 - And there at the river, by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast that we might humble ourselves before our God, and seek of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance.
Page xxii - ... speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : . from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 124 - Democracy I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
Page 272 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment, and an immutability of purpose, which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other.
Page 88 - Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 126 - What ||we ought to do,|| if a general governour should be sent out of England? 2. Whether it be lawful for us to carry the cross in our banners ? — In the first case, they all agreed, that, if a general governour were sent, we ought not to accept him, but defend our lawful possessions, (if we were able ;) otherwise to avoid or protract.
Page 244 - God's service, every one earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to drink in the words of the minister as they came from his mouth ; the assembly in general were, from time to time, in tears while the word was preached ; some weeping with sorrow and distress, others with joy and love, others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighbors. Our public praises were then greatly enlivened ; God was then served in our psalmody, in some measure, in the beauty of holiness.
Page 529 - We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.