Early Dissent, Modern Dissent, and the Church of EnglandDeighton, Bell, 1870 - 100 էջ |
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... land of their enemies , and he came unto them with the hope that they would appreciate his mission . He naturally trusted that the hardships they were suffering from others would bind them in close unity one with B another . But alas ...
... land of their enemies , and he came unto them with the hope that they would appreciate his mission . He naturally trusted that the hardships they were suffering from others would bind them in close unity one with B another . But alas ...
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... land . We have beheld the three most conspicuous bodies of her opponents , by their intermixture in matters more secular than religious , become as stagnant and dead as those whom they had at first opposed . It seems therefore no unfit ...
... land . We have beheld the three most conspicuous bodies of her opponents , by their intermixture in matters more secular than religious , become as stagnant and dead as those whom they had at first opposed . It seems therefore no unfit ...
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... land . We watched through the days which followed the Restoration how enactment after enactment was put forth to enforce con- formity to the Establishment , and we saw how enforced conformity resulted in almost national infidelity . So ...
... land . We watched through the days which followed the Restoration how enactment after enactment was put forth to enforce con- formity to the Establishment , and we saw how enforced conformity resulted in almost national infidelity . So ...
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... low ebb to which vital religion had fallen throughout the land , and the little effort that * Wesley's Works , xv . 248 . + Cf. Robert Hall's Works , vol . iii . , p . 337 et passim . was being made to revive it , provoked him and 38.
... low ebb to which vital religion had fallen throughout the land , and the little effort that * Wesley's Works , xv . 248 . + Cf. Robert Hall's Works , vol . iii . , p . 337 et passim . was being made to revive it , provoked him and 38.
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... land most grievously enthralled . We have but to recur to the words of Bishop Burnet , quoted last Sunday , to know how true their estimate was of the spiritual destitution which prevailed . We can see also that they discerned how much ...
... land most grievously enthralled . We have but to recur to the words of Bishop Burnet , quoted last Sunday , to know how true their estimate was of the spiritual destitution which prevailed . We can see also that they discerned how much ...
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Early Dissent, Modern Dissent, and the Church of England Joseph Rawson Lumby Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1870 |
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Act of Uniformity ACTS adopt advocate agency agitation Anglican appeal Articles of Religion Baptist Bishop Bishop of Rome bitterness body of Churchmen character Christian Church of England Church of Rome clergy commenced communion congregations course of action deemed desire difference direct disestablishment doctrine doubt duties early earnest endeavours English Church Episcopacy Established Church estrangement evil exhibit existence expect extreme faith feeling grievous hearers hope Infant Baptism labours laity late learnt lesson liberty look Lord's Supper matter ment minds ministers MODERN DISSENT monarch National Church nature Nonconformists Nonconformity numbers opinion opponents ourselves parishes party portion position preacher preaching Presbyterians present professed prominent Protestant Puritans question racter reign religion religious world result ritual Scriptures sects seems SERMON shew shewn sider speak spirit things thought union unity Wesley Wesleyan wisdom wise words ye are brethren ye wrong zeal zealous
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Էջ 21 - it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisal for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world...
Էջ 37 - I declare, once more, that I live and die a member of the Church of England...
Էջ 64 - I never had any design of separating from the Church. I have no such design now. I do not believe the Methodists in general design it, when I am no more seen. I do and will do all that is in my power to prevent such an event. Nevertheless, in spite of all...
Էջ 50 - As to what appertains to soundness of judgment in matters of faith, we esteem it sufficient that a church acknowledge the scriptures to be the word of God, the perfect and only rule of faith and practice, and own either the doctrinal part of those commonly called the articles of the church of England, or the confession or catechisms, shorter or larger compiled by the assembly at Westminster, or the confession agreed on at the Savoy, to be agreeable to the said rule.
Էջ 20 - This does often tear my heart. The case is not much better in many, who having got into orders come for institution, and cannot make it appear that they have read the scriptures or any one good book since they were ordained...
Էջ 52 - ... one of the most important as well as one of the most legitimate sources of his power.
Էջ 20 - A remiss, unthinking course of life, with little or no application to study, and the bare performing of that, which, if not done, would draw censures when complained of, without even pursuing the pastoral care in any suitable degree, is but too common, as well as too evident.
Էջ 12 - But it must be remembered that civil magistrates must govern it according to the rules of God prescribed in his word, and that as they are nurses so they be servants unto the church, and as they rule in the church so they must remember to subject themselves unto the church, to submit their sceptres, to throw down their crowns, before the church, yea, as the prophet speaketh [Is. xlix, 23], to lick the dust of the feet of the church.
Էջ 37 - Having had an opportunity of seeing several of the churches abroad, and having deeply considered the several sorts of Dissenters at home, I am fully convinced, that our own church, with all her blemishes, ia nearer the scriptural plan, than -any other in Europe.
Էջ 20 - ... them; so that they can give no account, or at least a very imperfect one, of the contents even of the gospels. Those who have read some few books, yet never seem to have read the scriptures.