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... divine right of conscience and the divine right of kings Page 37 · CHAPTER IV . Religious Life in England from the Death ... Divines - Scotch Alliance : the League and Covenant - The Covenant modified at Westminster - The Directory for ...
... divine right of conscience and the divine right of kings Page 37 · CHAPTER IV . Religious Life in England from the Death ... Divines - Scotch Alliance : the League and Covenant - The Covenant modified at Westminster - The Directory for ...
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... Divine power which we can comprehend but imperfectly , and partly from moral causes which it is not difficult to understand . The old religions of the world had lost much of their influence , and man is not made to live without a ...
... Divine power which we can comprehend but imperfectly , and partly from moral causes which it is not difficult to understand . The old religions of the world had lost much of their influence , and man is not made to live without a ...
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... them to know where to stop . We see this strikingly in the legends of the Romanists . Everything in the Christian * Luke xxiv . 27 . miracles seemed to say that the Divine power had come 8 Religious Life in England before 1660 .
... them to know where to stop . We see this strikingly in the legends of the Romanists . Everything in the Christian * Luke xxiv . 27 . miracles seemed to say that the Divine power had come 8 Religious Life in England before 1660 .
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... Divine action , and which must be placed before us by Divine communication , if we are to have any knowledge of them . We may reason ourselves into the belief that God is just , and good , and merciful ; but the manifestation of those ...
... Divine action , and which must be placed before us by Divine communication , if we are to have any knowledge of them . We may reason ourselves into the belief that God is just , and good , and merciful ; but the manifestation of those ...
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... Divine . For it must be remembered that the pro- mise of the Gospel was not the promise of a sensuous or a communistic paradise . To the believer in that day , the present was dark - a region subject to the powers of darkness . The ...
... Divine . For it must be remembered that the pro- mise of the Gospel was not the promise of a sensuous or a communistic paradise . To the believer in that day , the present was dark - a region subject to the powers of darkness . The ...
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Page 2 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 17 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that I sis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 354 - ... there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world: neither can every...
Page 268 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Page 51 - ... by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four General Councils or any of them, or by any other General Council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures...
Page 219 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom, and that we shall be ready to consent to such an act of parliament as upon mature deliberation shall be offered to us for the full granting that indulgence.
Page 49 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 449 - That the provisions which have been recapitulated are cumbrous, puerile, inconsistent with each other, inconsistent with the true theory of religious liberty, must be acknowledged. All that can be said in their defence is this : that they removed a vast mass of evil without shocking a vast mass of prejudice...
Page 162 - The most high and sacred Order of Kings is of Divine Right, being the ordinance of God himself, founded in the prime laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments.
Page 266 - Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.