Additions to the Address to Protestant Dissenters, on the Subject of the Lord's Supper, with Some Corrections of it: And a Letter to the Author of the Protestant Dissenter's Answer to it

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Joseph Johnson, 1770 - Lord's Supper - 59 pages

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Page 16 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 31 - As to solemn declaration, he was so absolved when, the " pains of death being loosed, he was "declared to be the Son of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead ;
Page 34 - Lord's supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, his death is showed forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all its benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.
Page 21 - Therefore righteousness and peace are departed from you, because every one hath forsaken the fear of God; and is grown blind in his faith; nor walketh by the rule of God's commandments nor liveth as is fitting in Christ: But every one follows his own wicked lusts: having taken up an unjust and wicked envy, by which death first entered into the world.
Page 38 - ... and God reproves those who ' draw near to him with their lips, while their hearts are far from him/ But the degree of this fervour, as well as of the joy that springs from devotion, will (like that of the love of God) depend much on the natural temper, disposition, constitution, and other circumstances, and will of course be very different in different men.
Page 30 - Chrift has done and fuffered for us, in order to accompliih the gracious fcheme of our falvation, or our deliverance from fin and mifery. Our Lord, alfo, calls the bread his body, and the wine his blood, apparently with a view to our recollecting, in a more efpecial manner, the...
Page 43 - Joes ftill accompany them with a particular prefence in them, and a blefling upon them ; fo that we coming to them with minds well prepared, with pure affections and holy refolutions, do certainly receive in and with them particular largeflbs of the favour and bounty of God.

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