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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... receive information and satisfaction that their said charge is unfounded ; and whereas the answer now reported is designed to give such information and satisfaction to all the members of that church , and may be useful to others , also ...
... receive information and satisfaction that their said charge is unfounded ; and whereas the answer now reported is designed to give such information and satisfaction to all the members of that church , and may be useful to others , also ...
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... received your reply dated the 17th of January , to our communication addressed to you on the 8th of November last , vindicating this church from your charge against it of having manifested " an entire disregard to the disci- pline of ...
... received your reply dated the 17th of January , to our communication addressed to you on the 8th of November last , vindicating this church from your charge against it of having manifested " an entire disregard to the disci- pline of ...
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... receive as the fundamental doctrines of christianity ; and Secondly , Because this church cannot consent to hold ... receiving for doctrines the command- ments of men , " and " making the word of God of none effect , " through your ...
... receive as the fundamental doctrines of christianity ; and Secondly , Because this church cannot consent to hold ... receiving for doctrines the command- ments of men , " and " making the word of God of none effect , " through your ...
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... received with the usual courtesy . And it is deserving of remark , that , in considering Mr. Brown's application to ... receiving or granting recommendations of members who wished to transfer their con- nexion to or from this church ...
... received with the usual courtesy . And it is deserving of remark , that , in considering Mr. Brown's application to ... receiving or granting recommendations of members who wished to transfer their con- nexion to or from this church ...
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... receiving members , have taken place between this and other churches , of as high reputed orthodoxy as your church , and whose pastors are in full fellowship with your pastor . It is but a few years since , that a member of the Third ...
... receiving members , have taken place between this and other churches , of as high reputed orthodoxy as your church , and whose pastors are in full fellowship with your pastor . It is but a few years since , that a member of the Third ...
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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.