The Cambridge and Saybrook Platforms of Church Discipline: With the Confession of Faith of the New England Churches, Adopted in 1680; and the Heads of Agreement Assented to by the Presbyterians and Congregationalists in England in 1690J. R. Marvin, 1829 - 132 pages |
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... & c . 131 Of our demeanor towards the Civil Magistrate 131 Of a Confession of Faith 131 Of our Duty and Deportment towards them that are not in Communion with us 132 HISTORICAL PREFACE . In the early settlement of this commonwealth.
... & c . 131 Of our demeanor towards the Civil Magistrate 131 Of a Confession of Faith 131 Of our Duty and Deportment towards them that are not in Communion with us 132 HISTORICAL PREFACE . In the early settlement of this commonwealth.
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... duty and inter- est of the churches to examine whether the men of this trespass are more prayerful , more watchful , more zealous , more patient , more heavenly , more universally conscien- * Son of the first minister of Salem . + The ...
... duty and inter- est of the churches to examine whether the men of this trespass are more prayerful , more watchful , more zealous , more patient , more heavenly , more universally conscien- * Son of the first minister of Salem . + The ...
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... duty to leave this warning with the churches , that probably the apostacy will not stop there ; for the same spirit that will dispose the next generation to change their way in one point , will dispose them to more and more changes ...
... duty to leave this warning with the churches , that probably the apostacy will not stop there ; for the same spirit that will dispose the next generation to change their way in one point , will dispose them to more and more changes ...
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... duty , and stirreth us up to it , and leaveth less room for the questioning of the truth of the church estate of a company of professors , and the truth of membership of particular persons ; yet we con- ceive the substance of it is kept ...
... duty , and stirreth us up to it , and leaveth less room for the questioning of the truth of the church estate of a company of professors , and the truth of membership of particular persons ; yet we con- ceive the substance of it is kept ...
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... duty of joining to all particular congregations , it might follow thereupon , that Christ should have no visible political churches upon earth . Acts , ii . 47 , and ix . 26 . exxxiii . 2 , 3 , and lxxxvii . 7 . 1 Peter , ii . 25. Eph ...
... duty of joining to all particular congregations , it might follow thereupon , that Christ should have no visible political churches upon earth . Acts , ii . 47 , and ix . 26 . exxxiii . 2 , 3 , and lxxxvii . 7 . 1 Peter , ii . 25. Eph ...
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Page 87 - Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation, so as a natural man being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Page 75 - ALTHOUGH the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence, do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable ; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation...
Page 96 - This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker of it ;" yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of ordinary means, attain thereunto.
Page 106 - The catholic or universal Church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 113 - As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a judgment, both to deter all men from sin, and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity ; so will he have that day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come, and may be ever prepared to say, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen.
Page 80 - 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 12 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page 79 - God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass ; yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 75 - Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church; and afterwards for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly to writing: which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased.
Page 83 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation. IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.