Early Dissent, Modern Dissent, and the Church of EnglandDeighton, Bell, 1870 - 100 էջ |
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... ourselves unless we first consider how they came to be in that position . Such con- sideration may haply supply us with warning and guidance . Seeing how our forefathers mistook the treatment of cases of tender con- science , we may ...
... ourselves unless we first consider how they came to be in that position . Such con- sideration may haply supply us with warning and guidance . Seeing how our forefathers mistook the treatment of cases of tender con- science , we may ...
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... while congratulating ourselves upon this , we should be wrong if we passed judg- ment on the period as though those Church- * Calamy's Life and Times , vol . ii . , p . 531 . men and Bishops who consented to penal enact- ments were 22.
... while congratulating ourselves upon this , we should be wrong if we passed judg- ment on the period as though those Church- * Calamy's Life and Times , vol . ii . , p . 531 . men and Bishops who consented to penal enact- ments were 22.
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... in the minds of dissenters by the events we have passed in review , I would only now insist on two points of instruction for ourselves drawn from the history of this period . The first is the importance of conciliation . Extreme measures ...
... in the minds of dissenters by the events we have passed in review , I would only now insist on two points of instruction for ourselves drawn from the history of this period . The first is the importance of conciliation . Extreme measures ...
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... ourselves to discriminate . between what is matter of principle and what is extraneous thereto . If this were remembered and practised more , we should have less of the unseemly discord that exists both within the Church and without it ...
... ourselves to discriminate . between what is matter of principle and what is extraneous thereto . If this were remembered and practised more , we should have less of the unseemly discord that exists both within the Church and without it ...
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... ourselves . It was this . While legislation for professedly religious ends grew apace , first in the shape of Tests and then in measures of Toleration , the evidence that religion had any vital hold upon the nation became daily weaker ...
... ourselves . It was this . While legislation for professedly religious ends grew apace , first in the shape of Tests and then in measures of Toleration , the evidence that religion had any vital hold upon the nation became daily weaker ...
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Early Dissent, Modern Dissent, and the Church of England Joseph Rawson Lumby Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1870 |
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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.