The Religious Creeds and Statistics of Every Christian Denomination in the United States and British Provinces: With Some Account of the Religious Sentiments of the Jews, American Indians, Deists, Mahometans, &c., Alphabetically Arranged |
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... Episcopal form is the most extensive , as it embraces the Catholic , Greek , English , Methodist and Moravian Churches . Episcopalians have three orders in the ministry , viz . bishops , priests , and deacons ; they all have Liturgies ...
... Episcopal form is the most extensive , as it embraces the Catholic , Greek , English , Methodist and Moravian Churches . Episcopalians have three orders in the ministry , viz . bishops , priests , and deacons ; they all have Liturgies ...
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... EPISCOPALIANS ; OR THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH . THE religious tenets or doctrines of the Episcopalians are con- tained in the thirty - nine Articles of their church , and in the book of Homilies , consisting of short moral and ...
... EPISCOPALIANS ; OR THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH . THE religious tenets or doctrines of the Episcopalians are con- tained in the thirty - nine Articles of their church , and in the book of Homilies , consisting of short moral and ...
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... EPISCOPAL CHURCH . This denomination arose in England , in 1729 , and derived their name from the exact regularity of their lives . In 1741 , they di- vided into two parties , under George Whitefield and John Wesley . The former adopted ...
... EPISCOPAL CHURCH . This denomination arose in England , in 1729 , and derived their name from the exact regularity of their lives . In 1741 , they di- vided into two parties , under George Whitefield and John Wesley . The former adopted ...
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... Episcopal Church in 1830 , and formed a constitution and discipline of their own . The following preamble and articles precede the constitution : ---- We , the representatives of the Associated Methodist Churches , in general convention ...
... Episcopal Church in 1830 , and formed a constitution and discipline of their own . The following preamble and articles precede the constitution : ---- We , the representatives of the Associated Methodist Churches , in general convention ...
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... Episcopal Church in all her articles of belief and modes of worship and discipline : their con- sciences forbade such conformity : their ministers were displaced : their property was tithed for the support of an ecclesiastical pre- lacy ...
... Episcopal Church in all her articles of belief and modes of worship and discipline : their con- sciences forbade such conformity : their ministers were displaced : their property was tithed for the support of an ecclesiastical pre- lacy ...
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Page 60 - The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual ; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.
Page 39 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Page 32 - Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone ; if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 98 - And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 90 - APOSTLES' CREED I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord...
Page 81 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 91 - For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the- majesty coeternal.
Page 58 - The Old Testament is not contrary to the New ; for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by CHRIST, who is the only mediator between GOD and man, being both GOD and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign, that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises.
Page 116 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people...
Page 60 - BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be.