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... seems to me for reasons which I will hereafter explain , is slowly struggling towards it . In the meantime I would warn you that there are per- sons in your Church but not of it , whose chief desire is to degrade it into a sect . At ...
... seems to me for reasons which I will hereafter explain , is slowly struggling towards it . In the meantime I would warn you that there are per- sons in your Church but not of it , whose chief desire is to degrade it into a sect . At ...
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... seems a simple one to those who have mastered it . But it is a lesson which was never quickly learned . And here , as elsewhere , the truth is first discovered in the physical sphere . Those who are acquainted with modern science are ...
... seems a simple one to those who have mastered it . But it is a lesson which was never quickly learned . And here , as elsewhere , the truth is first discovered in the physical sphere . Those who are acquainted with modern science are ...
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... seems quite incompatible with unity . We find worship conducted with the most gor- geous ritual , and we find also worship charac- terised by the baldest simplicity . We find ela- borate liturgies , extempore prayer , and voiceless ...
... seems quite incompatible with unity . We find worship conducted with the most gor- geous ritual , and we find also worship charac- terised by the baldest simplicity . We find ela- borate liturgies , extempore prayer , and voiceless ...
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... seems to have been accompanied by the same casuistry , the same ambiguity , and the same inoperative results then as now . The Reformed Churches on the Continent , in order to protect themselves from the enemies that hemmed them in or ...
... seems to have been accompanied by the same casuistry , the same ambiguity , and the same inoperative results then as now . The Reformed Churches on the Continent , in order to protect themselves from the enemies that hemmed them in or ...
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... seems to me that the damnatory clauses are about as ill - suited to express this , as any collection of words which it would be possible to get together . Whosoever will be saved , they assert , must thus think of the Trinity . If we ...
... seems to me that the damnatory clauses are about as ill - suited to express this , as any collection of words which it would be possible to get together . Whosoever will be saved , they assert , must thus think of the Trinity . If we ...
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