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giddy and unthinking youth of the age , they have given occasion to the
publishing such a number of incomparable defences of Christianity , as have
confirmed the faith of many , and must satisfy the minds of all reasonable
enquirers after truth ...
giddy and unthinking youth of the age , they have given occasion to the
publishing such a number of incomparable defences of Christianity , as have
confirmed the faith of many , and must satisfy the minds of all reasonable
enquirers after truth ...
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The minds of his people were irritated , and every attempt which Mr. Tomkins
used to calm them and restore harmony proving unsuccessful , he resigned his
pastoral connexion , after ten year's services among them . Prejudice rose so
high ...
The minds of his people were irritated , and every attempt which Mr. Tomkins
used to calm them and restore harmony proving unsuccessful , he resigned his
pastoral connexion , after ten year's services among them . Prejudice rose so
high ...
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This piece has seriously impressed the minds of many , and has , undoubtedly ,
contributed very much to the disuse of the Trinitarian Doxology amongst the
dissenters . Mr. Tomkins himself , so far back as the time when he was minister to
the ...
This piece has seriously impressed the minds of many , and has , undoubtedly ,
contributed very much to the disuse of the Trinitarian Doxology amongst the
dissenters . Mr. Tomkins himself , so far back as the time when he was minister to
the ...
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He excelled in the several virtues of integrity , greatness and generosity of mind ;
in compassion and tenderness , in a catholic temper and a public spirit , and in a
steady , regular piety . His solidity of judgment united with vivacity , his industry ...
He excelled in the several virtues of integrity , greatness and generosity of mind ;
in compassion and tenderness , in a catholic temper and a public spirit , and in a
steady , regular piety . His solidity of judgment united with vivacity , his industry ...
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... Coward's munificence : and for forty - four years pastor of a congregation in Old
Gravel - lane , Wapping . He was a pleasing and pathetic preacher , an early riser
, very methodical and punctual in the pendence and integrity of mind which he ...
... Coward's munificence : and for forty - four years pastor of a congregation in Old
Gravel - lane , Wapping . He was a pleasing and pathetic preacher , an early riser
, very methodical and punctual in the pendence and integrity of mind which he ...
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Page 117 - The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith...
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Page 261 - Law was;) but it is a religion to serve God, not in bondage of the figure or shadow, but in the freedom of the spirit, being content only with those Ceremonies which do serve to a decent order and godly discipline, and such as be apt to stir up the dull mind of man to the remembrance of his duty to God by some notable and special signification, whereby he might be edified.
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| Title | The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists: With an Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Further Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines, Volume 1 The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists: With an Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Further Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines, Joshua Toulmin |
| Author | Daniel Neal |
| Editor | Joshua Toulmin |
| Publisher | Charles Ewer, 1816 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Dec 2006 |
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