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... Apostles . By THOMAS GORDON , Esq . , Author of the Independent Whig . No. III . Sketches of the Characters of Charles I. and II . and Oliver Cromwell : contained in the " Introductory Chapter " to the History of the Early Part of the ...
... Apostles . By THOMAS GORDON , Esq . , Author of the Independent Whig . No. III . Sketches of the Characters of Charles I. and II . and Oliver Cromwell : contained in the " Introductory Chapter " to the History of the Early Part of the ...
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... , " searched the Scriptures daily , whether those things were so . " Nor did they more than what God himself in many places commands us by the same apostle , to search , 66 to try , to judge of these things ourselves 8 CIVIL POWER.
... , " searched the Scriptures daily , whether those things were so . " Nor did they more than what God himself in many places commands us by the same apostle , to search , 66 to try , to judge of these things ourselves 8 CIVIL POWER.
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... apostles demand , “ Who art thou " that presumest to impose other law or judgment in religion than the only lawgiver and judge , Christ , who only can save and can destroy , gives to the conscience ? And the forecited place to the ...
... apostles demand , “ Who art thou " that presumest to impose other law or judgment in religion than the only lawgiver and judge , Christ , who only can save and can destroy , gives to the conscience ? And the forecited place to the ...
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... apostles had no domi- nion or constraining power over faith or conscience , much less have ordinary ministers . 1 Pet . v . 2 , 3 , " Feed the flock of God , not by constraint , & c . , neither as being lords over God's heritage . " But ...
... apostles had no domi- nion or constraining power over faith or conscience , much less have ordinary ministers . 1 Pet . v . 2 , 3 , " Feed the flock of God , not by constraint , & c . , neither as being lords over God's heritage . " But ...
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... apostle hath expressed so highly to be in church - dis- cipline ( 2 Cor . x . ) , of which anon , and think weakly that the church of God cannot long subsist but in a bodily fear , for want of other proof , will needs wrest that place ...
... apostle hath expressed so highly to be in church - dis- cipline ( 2 Cor . x . ) , of which anon , and think weakly that the church of God cannot long subsist but in a bodily fear , for want of other proof , will needs wrest that place ...
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Page 14 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 25 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 13 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 7 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Page 10 - For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen ; whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Page 7 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Page 7 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force : God therefore left him free ; set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
Page 7 - Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breast-plate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace ; above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one ; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of...
Page 26 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Page 1 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.