I have never united myself to any church, because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their Articles of Belief and Confessions of Faith.... Notes and Queries - Page 4291903Full view - About this book
| Henry Champion Deming - Bible - 1865 - 70 pages
...forget. He said, he had never united himself to any church, because he found difficulty in giving his assent, without mental reservation, to the long complicated...belief and Confessions of Faith. " When any church," he continued, "will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership the Saviour's... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 236 pages
...martyred President. He never joined a church, because, as he said, he found difficulty in giving his assent, without mental reservation, to the long complicated...Belief, and Confessions of Faith. " When any church," he continued, " will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's... | |
| Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1866 - 364 pages
...and Mr. Lincoln made this impressive remark : ' I have never united myself to any church, because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without...condensed statement of the substance of both Law and Gospel, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...martyred President. He never joined a church, because, as he said, he found difficulty in giving his assent, without mental reservation, to the long complicated...Belief, and Confessions of Faith. " When any church/' he continued, " will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...daily life : On one occasion, Mr. Lincoln said, " I have never united myself to any church, because I found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long and complicated statements of Christian doctrine, which characterize their articles of belief and confessions... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...daily life : On one occasion, Mr. Lincoln said, " I have never united myself to any church, because I found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long and complicated statements of Christian doctrine, which characterize their articles of belief and confessions... | |
| William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...with Hon. HC Deming, of Connecticut, he said : " I have not united myself to any church, because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long-complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their articles of belief and confessions... | |
| James Martin Peebles - Christianity - 1870 - 122 pages
...ring in the new; King in the Christ that is to be." CHAPTER V. JESUS AND THE POSITIVE ItELIGION. "I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without...complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterise their articles of belief ağid confessions of faith. When any church will inscribe orer... | |
| Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1872 - 370 pages
...and Mr. Lincoln made this impressive remark : ' I have never united myself to any church, because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without...condensed statement of the substance of both Law and Gospel, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all... | |
| 1872 - 522 pages
...to any Church, because I have " found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reserva" tion, to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine..." which characterize their Articles of Belief and Confession of " Faith." — ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Carpenter's Six Months at the White House, p. 190. NOTE... | |
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