History of Congregationalism from about A.D. 250 to the Present Time: In Continuation of the Account of the Origin and Earliest History of this System of Church Polity Contained in "A View of Congregationalism", Volume 5Congregational Publ. Society, 1881 - Church history |
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Page 507 - And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
Page 583 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 593 - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 675 - But as to all civil purposes, the secession of a whole church from the parish would be an extinction of the church ; and it is competent to the members of the parish to institute a new church, or to engraft one upon the old stock, if any of it should remain, and this new church would succeed to all the rights of the old, in relation to the parish.
Page 471 - The Lord Jesus Christ was so plainly held out in the preaching of the Gospel unto poor lost sinners, and the absolute necessity of the new birth, and God's Holy Spirit in those days was pleased to accompany the Word with such efficacy upon the hearts of many, that our hearts were taken off from Old England and set upon heaven. The discourse not only of the aged, but of the youth also, was not, "How shall we go to England?
Page 483 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 464 - According to this document, the donors proposed " to lay the foundation of a public free SCHOOL or ACADEMY for the purpose of instructing Youth, not only in English and Latin Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are commonly taught; but more especially to learn them the GREAT END AND REAL BUSINESS OF LIVING.
Page 425 - But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see : and they that have not heard shall understand.
Page 544 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 45 - And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors.