The Conduct of the First Converts to Christianity: Considered and Applied in a Sermon, Preached at Bridport, on the Tenth of July, 1788, at the Ordination of the Rev. Thomas Howe

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H. Goldney, and sold by J. Johnson, Mr. Akerman, Mr. Woolmer, and Mrs. Toulmin, 1788 - 108 pages
 

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Page 2 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need ; and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people.
Page 28 - Considerations on the Provisional Treaty with America, and the Preliminary Articles of Peace with France and Spain.
Page 22 - I have finilhed my courfe, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteoufnefs, which the Lord the righteous judge fhall give me at that day • and not to me only, but unto all them alfo that love his appearing.
Page 6 - But he turned, and faid unto Peter, Get thee behind me (/), Satan, thou art an offence unto me : for thou favoureft not the things that be of God, but thofe that be of men.
Page 10 - Chrift, who jhall change our vile body, that it may be fajhioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able tofubdue all things unto himfelf0" " For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Chrift in God.
Page 6 - Jerufalêm, and fuffer many things of the " elders and chief priefts and Scribes, and be killed, and be raifed
Page 17 - Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye ftedfaft, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forafmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord...
Page 2 - the multi" tude of them that believed were of one " heart and of one foul;" and " continuing " daily with one accord in the temple, and " breaking bread from houfe to houfe, did eat " their meat with gladnefs and finglenefs of " heart; praifing God, and having favour with
Page 12 - ... They were guilty, too, of the same inconsistencies of modern Christians. They taught the doctrine of the Trinity — God the Father, God the Mother, and God the Son. God was frequently represented as father, mother and babe. They also taught that the soul had a divine origin ; that after death it was to be judged according to the deeds done in the body ; that those who had done well passed into perpetual joy, and those who had done evil into endless pain.
Page 3 - from church to " church," as he would have the houfe called; for then we fhould underftand the following verfe thus, " and " the Lord added to the church daily fuch as fhould " be faved,

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