 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...his will our God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it ; and the Calriuists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not al things. " This is a misery much to be lamented , for, though they were burning and shining lights... | |
 | Bernard Whitman - Freedom of religion - 1831 - 200 pages
...his will our God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it. And the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw net all things. This is a great misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining... | |
 | James Thacher - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1832 - 460 pages
...will our good God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it, and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast, where they were left by that...whole counsel of God ; but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that 'which they first received, I beseech you to remember... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1832 - 224 pages
...devoted tc public worship, " was spent in pourtliey will rather die, than embrace it. And the Calvinista, you see, stick fast, where they were left by that...all things. " This is a misery, much to be lamented ;J for though they were burning аш! shining lighiWm their times, yethhey penetrated not into the... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 372 pages
...will our good God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it. Arid the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left, by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things." Many of the emigrants acted in accordance with this advice of the excellent Robinson. Thomas Walley,... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1833 - 576 pages
...will our good God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it ; and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great...things. " This is a misery much to be lamented ; for CHAP. though they were burning and shining lights in '' their times, yet they penetrated not into the... | |
 | Alexander Jaffray, John Barclay - Quakers - 1833 - 638 pages
...will our great God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it ; and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man, who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and... | |
 | Alexander Knox - 1834 - 514 pages
...a period in religion, and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their reformation. This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though...they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God." In what precise sense these words were meant, by him who used them, I will not undertake to say ; but... | |
 | 1837 - 684 pages
...have begun, but almost to have terminated, with the Reformers themselves. " They were," said he, " burning and shining lights in their times ; yet they...the whole counsel of God ; but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light, as that which they first received I charge you," says... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...go at present no further than the instruments of their reformation. — Luther and Calvin were great and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God. — I beseech you, remember it, 'tis an article of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive... | |
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This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first... 
