 | Isaac Backus, David Weston - Religion - 2001 - 564 pages
...God part of his due, the outward man, but the profane person giveth God neither outward nor inward man. You know not, if you think we came into this wilderness to practice those courses here which we fled from iu England. We believe there is a vast difference between... | |
 | Loren P. Beth - Church and state - 2002 - 192 pages
...assumed their own infallibility; for, he said, the church speaks with the voice of God, not of man. "There is a vast difference between men's inventions and God's institutions; we fled from men's invention, to which else we should have been compelled; we compell none to men's inventions."26 Cotton... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad - History - 2005 - 178 pages
...persecuting odiers in Massachusetts. How could John Cotton justify or explain that? Easily, said Cotton. "We believe there is a vast difference between men's...God's institutions. We fled from men's inventions," he explained, but "we compel none to men's inventions." In other words, we and God are in perfect agreement;... | |
 | North American review - 1851 - 570 pages
...was their friend and their brother in the faith. " You know not," the Boston ministers also say, " if you think we came into this wilderness to practise...been compelled; we compel none to men's inventions." Mr. Hildreth puts a gloss upon this passage, to make it appear as. " a downright claim of a divine... | |
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If it do make men hypocrites, yet better be hypocrites than profane persons. Hypocrites give God part of his due, the outward man, but the profane person giveth God neither outward nor inward man. You know not, if you think we came into this wilderness... 
