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... civil authority . It was a vital question involving the spirit- ual independence of the Church . The issue turned on the interpretation of Matt . 18 : 15-17 . Selden's speech was subtle and powerful . It 28 THE CREED FORMULATED.
... civil authority . It was a vital question involving the spirit- ual independence of the Church . The issue turned on the interpretation of Matt . 18 : 15-17 . Selden's speech was subtle and powerful . It 28 THE CREED FORMULATED.
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... civil but spiritual in its im- port . At the conclusion of his argument Selden exclaimed , " That young man by his single speech has swept away the labors of ten years of my life . " While Selden was speaking a friend had observed ...
... civil but spiritual in its im- port . At the conclusion of his argument Selden exclaimed , " That young man by his single speech has swept away the labors of ten years of my life . " While Selden was speaking a friend had observed ...
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... civil magistrates the Confession has already been twice revised . But neither the past nor the proposed revision has impaired or will impair in any way the integrity of our Calvinistic system of doctrine . The Revision Committee ...
... civil magistrates the Confession has already been twice revised . But neither the past nor the proposed revision has impaired or will impair in any way the integrity of our Calvinistic system of doctrine . The Revision Committee ...
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... civil liberty , our Protestant faith , our Christian homes . The thoughtful reader , noting that these three blessings lie at the root of all that is best and greatest in the modern world , may be startled at the implied claim that our ...
... civil liberty , our Protestant faith , our Christian homes . The thoughtful reader , noting that these three blessings lie at the root of all that is best and greatest in the modern world , may be startled at the implied claim that our ...
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... civil and religious freedom against the gigantic power of Spain . For eighty years the strongest na- tion in the world labored with all its might to crush well - nigh the smallest , and failed . Says Douglas Campbell , in his massive ...
... civil and religious freedom against the gigantic power of Spain . For eighty years the strongest na- tion in the world labored with all its might to crush well - nigh the smallest , and failed . Says Douglas Campbell , in his massive ...
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Page 51 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Page 52 - But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth: 14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 32 - The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Page 188 - Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Page 172 - For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 69 - In a few months there remained not a trace indicating that the most formidable army in the world had just been absorbed into the mass of the community. The Royalists themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the discarded warriors prospered beyond other men, that none was charged with any theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he was in all probability one of Oliver's...
Page 50 - Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God ; who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began...
Page 176 - The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in his providence, that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men,14 and that not by a bare permission, but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding,» and otherwise ordering and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends...
Page 178 - God the great Creator of all things, doth uphold, direct, dispose and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence, according to his infallible fore-knowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will, to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness and mercy.
Page 49 - For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.