An Apologetical Relation of the Particular Sufferings of the Faithful Ministers and Professors of the Church of Scotland, Since August 1660: Wherein Several Questions, Useful for the Time are Discussed; the King's Prerogative Over Parliaments and People Soberly Inquired Into; the Lawfulness of Defensive War Cleared; the Supreme Magistrate's Power in Church Matters Examined; Mr. Stillingfleet's Notion Concerning the Divine Right Or Forms of Church Government Considered; the Author of "The Seasonable Case" Answered; Other Particulars, Such as the Hearing of the Curates Appearing Before the High Commission Court, Etc., Canvassed ... |
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... land , and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon . " JER . 1. 34 . " I will bear the indignation of the Lord , because I have sinned against him , until he plead my cause , and execute judgment for me : he will bring me forth to the light ...
... land , and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon . " JER . 1. 34 . " I will bear the indignation of the Lord , because I have sinned against him , until he plead my cause , and execute judgment for me : he will bring me forth to the light ...
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... land . No prelates among the Culdees . - How and when reformation from Popery began . - Super- intendents no prelates .-- National Assemblies from the beginning of the Reformation How the Tulchan bishops came in over the church's belly ...
... land . No prelates among the Culdees . - How and when reformation from Popery began . - Super- intendents no prelates .-- National Assemblies from the beginning of the Reformation How the Tulchan bishops came in over the church's belly ...
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... land of strangers . " I need not observe ( says Mr Wodrow ) this unusual severity to this good man . The utmost he could be charged with was a reproof given to his ( once ) brethren for their apostacy ; and for this he is cast in prison ...
... land of strangers . " I need not observe ( says Mr Wodrow ) this unusual severity to this good man . The utmost he could be charged with was a reproof given to his ( once ) brethren for their apostacy ; and for this he is cast in prison ...
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... land . Yet was not he idle ; for while he was here , he wrote with a great deal of wisdom against the philosophers of this time , who would subject the Scriptures to philosophy , setting 1 Cleland's Annals of Glasgow , p . 129 . up ...
... land . Yet was not he idle ; for while he was here , he wrote with a great deal of wisdom against the philosophers of this time , who would subject the Scriptures to philosophy , setting 1 Cleland's Annals of Glasgow , p . 129 . up ...
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... land , so as the defection of that church may be matter of astonishment to the pre- sent and after generations . Yet it is her mercy that there are not a few in her whom conscience and Christian tenderness in their walk hath exposed to ...
... land , so as the defection of that church may be matter of astonishment to the pre- sent and after generations . Yet it is her mercy that there are not a few in her whom conscience and Christian tenderness in their walk hath exposed to ...
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Page 69 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promise, heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian : So help me God.
Page 208 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 69 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 144 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 160 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 177 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 9 - For ye have need of patience; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Page 144 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 143 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Page 149 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men : for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites. For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer : therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.