The United States of America Compared with Some European Countries, Particularly England: In a Discourse Delivered in Trinity Church, and in St. Paul's and St. John's Chapels, in the City of New York, October, 1825T. and J. Swords, 1826 - 44 páginas |
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... polity dispensed some of her choicest blessings , and religion opened her purest temples - even there ( and he thinks the sentiment was not that of the excusable but blind impulse which in- stinctively attaches us to the soil that gave ...
... polity dispensed some of her choicest blessings , and religion opened her purest temples - even there ( and he thinks the sentiment was not that of the excusable but blind impulse which in- stinctively attaches us to the soil that gave ...
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... polity , the monarchical and aristocratic features of her constitution , we broadly and fearlessly recognize the great truth , that though , in its general powers , and in its sanctions , government is " ordained of God , " in the ...
... polity , the monarchical and aristocratic features of her constitution , we broadly and fearlessly recognize the great truth , that though , in its general powers , and in its sanctions , government is " ordained of God , " in the ...
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... polity , that the power , the property , and the happiness , which in the old nations of the world are confined to the few , are dis- tributed among the many ; that the liveliness and con- tent which pervade the humblest classes among ...
... polity , that the power , the property , and the happiness , which in the old nations of the world are confined to the few , are dis- tributed among the many ; that the liveliness and con- tent which pervade the humblest classes among ...
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... polity we derive from the Church of England . It is the principle which its ablest champion , styled in olden time and in olden- phrase , " the judicious Hooker , " enforces and vindicates -that all orders of men affected by the laws ...
... polity we derive from the Church of England . It is the principle which its ablest champion , styled in olden time and in olden- phrase , " the judicious Hooker , " enforces and vindicates -that all orders of men affected by the laws ...
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... polity ; and in this country , resembles more than any other ecclesiastical government , our civil constitutions . • I cannot , however , avoid adverting to one or two other particulars . It would hardly be supposed , and yet such is ...
... polity ; and in this country , resembles more than any other ecclesiastical government , our civil constitutions . • I cannot , however , avoid adverting to one or two other particulars . It would hardly be supposed , and yet such is ...
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The United States of America Compared with Some European Countries ... John Henry Hobart Visualização integral - 1828 |
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Página 5 - How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Página 25 - ... strifes and troubles would be endless, except they gave their common consent all to be ordered by some whom they should agree upon : without which consent there were no reason that one man should take upon him to be lord or judge over another...
Página 26 - God hath over all: and by the natural law, whereunto he hath made all subject, the lawful power of making laws to command whole politic societies of men belongeth so properly unto the same entire societies, that for any prince or potentate of what kind soever upon earth to exercise the same of himself, and not either by express commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by authority derived at the first from their consent upon whose persons they impose laws, it is no better...
Página 26 - For of this thing no man doubteth, 'namely that in all societies companies and corporations what severally each shall be bound unto it must be with all their assents ratified. Against all equity it were that a man should suffer detriment at the hands of men for not observing that which he never did either by himself or by others mediately or immediately agree unto.
Página 26 - Till it be proved that some special Law of Christ hath for ever annexed unto the Clergy alone the Power to make Ecclesiastical Laws, we are to hold it a thing most consonant with equity and reason, that no Ecclesiastical Laws be made in a Christian Commonwealth, without consent as well of the Laity as of the Clergy, but least of all without consent of the highest Power.
Página 18 - ... which can be urged against a Christian minister. And to this course he was also prompted by an earnest desire, that, as a Bishop of the American Episcopal Church, he should not appear to have departed from the doctrines of the venerable Church of England, to whom that church is ' indebted, under God, for her first foundation, and for a long continuance of nursing care and protection...
Página 41 - The trustees shall be resident in the dioceses for which they are appointed. They shall be nominated by the diocesan conventions respectively, to every stated general convention, who may confirm or reject such nominations. The senior bishop present shall preside at every meeting of the board of trustees ; and whenever demanded, by a majority of the bishops present, or a majority of the clerical and lay trustees present, the concurrence of a majority of the bishops present, and a majority of clerical...
Página 41 - Opening of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1822.
Página 41 - At the second examination — on the evidences of Christianity, and systematic divinity. And at the last examination — on church history, ecclesiastical polity, the book of common prayer, and the constitution and canons of the church, and of the diocese for which he is to be ordained.
Página 32 - Still in her doctrines, in her ministry, in her worship, she is ' all glorious within' — and thanks to the sound, and orthodox, and zealous clergy, who have been faithful to her principles, she is still the great joy and the great blessing of the land. It would be impossible to sever the church from the state, without a convulsion which would uproot both, and thus destroy the fairest fabric of social and religious happiness in the European world.