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... claim for it their official confirmation . A general approval - without being pledged to every senti- ment - is all that the Author understood as meant by the vote for its publication ; and if , in its enlarged form , it may secure this ...
... claim for it their official confirmation . A general approval - without being pledged to every senti- ment - is all that the Author understood as meant by the vote for its publication ; and if , in its enlarged form , it may secure this ...
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... claim to this honour and dignity , but also anathematize all others as intruders and not Ministers , and their charges as assemblies of schismatics and Heathens and not churches , cannot complain if the proof of their own " apostleship ...
... claim to this honour and dignity , but also anathematize all others as intruders and not Ministers , and their charges as assemblies of schismatics and Heathens and not churches , cannot complain if the proof of their own " apostleship ...
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... claim to be the only Ministers , and their flocks to be the only church of God , of necessity exclude and repudiate all others . We are one of these excluded ( not to say , excommunicated ) communities . We are grieved more on account ...
... claim to be the only Ministers , and their flocks to be the only church of God , of necessity exclude and repudiate all others . We are one of these excluded ( not to say , excommunicated ) communities . We are grieved more on account ...
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... claim the blessings of the Gospel on the ground of legal right . If so , then all these blessings must be of grace . Grace originated the gift of Christ ; his redemption itself , to us , is infinite , unbounded , universal grace ; the ...
... claim the blessings of the Gospel on the ground of legal right . If so , then all these blessings must be of grace . Grace originated the gift of Christ ; his redemption itself , to us , is infinite , unbounded , universal grace ; the ...
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... claims of the Gospel are transcendently above the conditional obedience which must be given to the authority of man , when applied to the subject of religion . When the alternative came practically before them for consideration ...
... claims of the Gospel are transcendently above the conditional obedience which must be given to the authority of man , when applied to the subject of religion . When the alternative came practically before them for consideration ...
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Page 11 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 99 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Page 91 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Page 104 - ... but 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 12 - For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female : for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 119 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 97 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 11 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 12 - He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Page 97 - ALL THINGS, YEA, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. FOR WHAT MAN KNOWETH THE THINGS OF A MAN, SAVE THE SPIRIT OF MAN,. WHICH IS IN HIM? EVEN SO THE THINGS OF GOD KNOWETH NO MAN, BUT THE SPIRIT OF GOD.