Presbyterians, a Popular Narrative of Their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Achievements

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J. A. Hill & Company, 1892 - 554 strani
 

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Stran 214 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Stran 128 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Stran 184 - The reunion shall be effected on the doctrinal and ecclesiastical basis of our common Standards; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments shall be acknowledged to be the inspired word of God, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice; the Confession of Faith shall continue to be sincerely received and adopted as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures...
Stran 360 - The work of the Holy Spirit in the conversion and sanctification of the sinner.
Stran 357 - All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this government, and are bound to submit to it. But it would be a vain consent, and would lead to the total subversion of such religious bodies, if any one aggrieved by one of their decisions could appeal to the secular courts and have them reversed.
Stran 115 - the first voice publicly raised in America to dissolve all connection with Great Britain came not from the Puritans of New England, nor the Dutch of New York, nor from the planters of Virginia, but from the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.
Stran 83 - ... the said Confession and Catechisms to be the confession of their faith, excepting only some clauses in the twentieth and twenty-third chapters, concerning which clauses the Synod do unanimously declare, that they do not receive those articles in any such sense as to suppose the civil magistrate hath a controlling power over Synods with respect to the exercise of their ministerial authority, or power to persecute any for their religion, or in any sense contrary to the Protestant succession to...
Stran 119 - ... wife, foully slain, in your view, — And what could you, what should you, what would you do ? Why, just what he did ! They were left in the lurch For the want of more wadding. He ran to the church, Broke the door, stripped the pews, and dashed out in the road With his arms full of hymn-books, and threw down his load At their feet ! then above all the shouting and shots, Rang his voice, — " Put Watts into 'em, — Boys, give 'em Watts !
Stran 118 - You may dig anywhere and you'll turn up a ball — Nothing more. Grasses spring, waters run, flowers blow Pretty much as they did ninety.three years ago. Nothing more, did I say ? Stay, one moment ; you've heard Of Caldwell, the parson, who once preached the Word Down at Springfield ? What, no ! Come, that's bad ; why he had All the Jerseys aflame ? and they gave him the name Of
Stran 137 - I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

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