Correspondence Between the First Church and the Tabernacle Church in Salem: In which the Duties of Churches are Discussed and the Rights of Conscience VindicatedPress of Foote and Brown, 1832 - 176 pages |
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... authority in matters of faith , excepting as they accord with Christ and his apostles . We shall freely draw from the writings of such authors , especially those of an established orthodox rep- utation , or who were under no bias from ...
... authority in matters of faith , excepting as they accord with Christ and his apostles . We shall freely draw from the writings of such authors , especially those of an established orthodox rep- utation , or who were under no bias from ...
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... authority to any human interpretation , it seems necessarily to follow , that we ought to admit each other's integrity in this high trust , as readily as in lower ones , and recognize each other's christian claims accordingly . Shall we ...
... authority to any human interpretation , it seems necessarily to follow , that we ought to admit each other's integrity in this high trust , as readily as in lower ones , and recognize each other's christian claims accordingly . Shall we ...
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... authority and laws of Christ only , and has no right to make rules and regulations , which vary his terms of communion , or in any respect abridge the privileges granted by him to his disciples and followers . All true churches ...
... authority and laws of Christ only , and has no right to make rules and regulations , which vary his terms of communion , or in any respect abridge the privileges granted by him to his disciples and followers . All true churches ...
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... authority of Christ ; for his church is his kingdom , his house , which none can constitute or build but himself . Wherefore it is necessary that the power of admission into , and exclusion from the church , doth arise from his grant ...
... authority of Christ ; for his church is his kingdom , his house , which none can constitute or build but himself . Wherefore it is necessary that the power of admission into , and exclusion from the church , doth arise from his grant ...
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... authority . In these I submit only to the most high God . Him only I call and reverence as the father of my faith . I have but one Lord , even Christ . I acknowledge no divinely authorized and inspired teachers , but the apostles ; nor ...
... authority . In these I submit only to the most high God . Him only I call and reverence as the father of my faith . I have but one Lord , even Christ . I acknowledge no divinely authorized and inspired teachers , but the apostles ; nor ...
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Page 97 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace...
Page 25 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 86 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 86 - ALL, those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call by his word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...
Page 27 - God : this deifying our own interpretations, and tyrannous enforcing them upon others: this restraining of the word of God from that latitude and generality, and the understandings of men from that liberty, wherein Christ and the apostles left them, is, and hath been, the only fountain of all the schisms of the church, and that which makes them immortal...
Page 73 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts : and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 96 - Not every one that saith, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Page 70 - In other things I will take no man's liberty of judgment from him, neither shall any man take mine from me. I will think no man the worse man, nor the worse Christian, I will love no man the less, for differing in opinion from me. And what measure I mete to others, I expect from them again.
Page 86 - As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season ; are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power through faith unto salvation.
Page 90 - All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all ; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.