Germany, England, and Scotland: Or, Recollections of a Swiss MinisterSimpkin, Marshall, 1848 - 506 pages |
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... THE CHURCH . · 334 Presbyterian Conventicles . Cameron . The Duke of York . Spirit . Scarcity of the Word . Excommunica- tion by Cargill . The Duke of Rothes · - 343 SECTION VI . — THE KILLING TIME . Testimony of xiv CONTENTS .
... THE CHURCH . · 334 Presbyterian Conventicles . Cameron . The Duke of York . Spirit . Scarcity of the Word . Excommunica- tion by Cargill . The Duke of Rothes · - 343 SECTION VI . — THE KILLING TIME . Testimony of xiv CONTENTS .
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... Presbyterian church , repre- sented by the ministers and deputies from their flocks . They go even farther , and would unite all the churches of Germany into one great German church . To accomplish this , they claim the self- regulation ...
... Presbyterian church , repre- sented by the ministers and deputies from their flocks . They go even farther , and would unite all the churches of Germany into one great German church . To accomplish this , they claim the self- regulation ...
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... presbyterian element , yet they would retain that which is consistorial , govern- mental , or regal . They want an ecclesiastical con- stitution somewhat similar to those political ones , in which the people speak through their ...
... presbyterian element , yet they would retain that which is consistorial , govern- mental , or regal . They want an ecclesiastical con- stitution somewhat similar to those political ones , in which the people speak through their ...
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... Presbyterian element . " Let us not , through hesitation and anxious delays , " allow the decisive moment to pass away . " a man is to learn to swim , he does not throw " himself at first into the deepest part of the sea , yet he must ...
... Presbyterian element . " Let us not , through hesitation and anxious delays , " allow the decisive moment to pass away . " a man is to learn to swim , he does not throw " himself at first into the deepest part of the sea , yet he must ...
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... presbyterian ; they therefore propose a system half governmental , half presbyterian ; but this is merely a step . The Genevese system will go round the world . May it but be found in Geneva ! May God raise up within her that truly ...
... presbyterian ; they therefore propose a system half governmental , half presbyterian ; but this is merely a step . The Genevese system will go round the world . May it but be found in Geneva ! May God raise up within her that truly ...
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Page 354 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 256 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 368 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 461 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 287 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways : then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 21 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 256 - What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops. And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Page 90 - Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 419 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 356 - What do I see but Christ, in one of his members, wrestling there? Think you that we are the sufferers ? No, it is Christ in us ; for he sends none a warfare on their own charges.