History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Količina 2

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Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1864
 

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Stran 503 - Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.
Stran 240 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth...
Stran 518 - Father in mercy, forgiveness, and in all goodness; that they should do to others as they would that others should do to them...
Stran 239 - We consider the voluntary enslaving of one part of the human race by another as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature...
Stran 196 - Here many refugees, from almost all parts of the Union, fled to escape justice or punishment ; for although there was law, yet it could not be executed, and it was a desperate state of society. Murderers, horse thieves, highway robbers, and counterfeiters fled here until they combined and actually formed a majority.
Stran 239 - Slavery creates a paradox in the moral system — it exhibits rational, accountable, and immortal beings in such circumstances as scarcely to leave them the power of moral action. It exhibits them as...
Stran 167 - At one time I saw at least five hundred swept down in a moment, as if a battery of a thousand guns had been opened upon them, and then immediately followed shrieks and shouts that rent the very heavens.
Stran 510 - When, then, a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights...
Stran 510 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case.
Stran 504 - Connecticut, which is vested with no power to legislate in such cases, and especially to enact laws to regulate churches not within her limits, and as much confusion and irregularity have arisen from this unnatural and unconstitutional system of union, therefore it is resolved that "the act of the Assembly of 1801, entitled a 'Plan of Union,' be, and the same is hereby, abrogated.

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