Protestant Nonconformity: A Sketch of Its General History, with an Account of the Rise and Present State of Its Various Denominations in the Town of BirminghamHamilton, Adams, 1849 - 279 páginas |
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... toleration should be extended to any who dissented from it . In a convocation of Presby- terians , the former part of the subject was soon dis- posed of , and it was agreed that Presbyterianism should be recommended as the state ...
... toleration should be extended to any who dissented from it . In a convocation of Presby- terians , the former part of the subject was soon dis- posed of , and it was agreed that Presbyterianism should be recommended as the state ...
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... toleration would be a sin against God . This brought on a struggle in the Assembly between the friends of liberty and the advocates of intolerance , which was maintained for a considerable time with all the force of argument which the ...
... toleration would be a sin against God . This brought on a struggle in the Assembly between the friends of liberty and the advocates of intolerance , which was maintained for a considerable time with all the force of argument which the ...
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... toleration , these breth- ren felt the danger they were likely to be placed in by the bigotry of the Assembly , and pleaded nobly the cause of religious liberty . Let it be distinctly borne in mind that this question , as carried on by ...
... toleration , these breth- ren felt the danger they were likely to be placed in by the bigotry of the Assembly , and pleaded nobly the cause of religious liberty . Let it be distinctly borne in mind that this question , as carried on by ...
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... toleration . The following is an attack upon the bigots , in verse : " Because you have thrown off your prelate lord , And with stiff vows renounc'd his liturgy , To seize the widow'd whore plurality From them whose sin ye envied , not ...
... toleration . The following is an attack upon the bigots , in verse : " Because you have thrown off your prelate lord , And with stiff vows renounc'd his liturgy , To seize the widow'd whore plurality From them whose sin ye envied , not ...
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... toleration , and also comprehension . Their theory was the protection and support of those who preached the gospel , whether belonging to Presbyterians or Independents ; and many of both at that time possessed the benefices of the ...
... toleration , and also comprehension . Their theory was the protection and support of those who preached the gospel , whether belonging to Presbyterians or Independents ; and many of both at that time possessed the benefices of the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Act of Toleration Act of Uniformity afterwards Antinomianism Arminian Assembly authority Baptist Birmingham bishops blessing body called Carr's-lane chapel charity Christ Christian church in Cannon-street Church of England clergy College commenced Conference congregation connexion conscience contend controversy death denomination dissenters divine doctrine ecclesiastical erected established faith friends glory gospel held High Church holy honour hundred Independents intolerance James King labours lived London Lord Lord's Supper matters meeting meeting-house ment Methodists mingham minister ministry Mount Zion chapel nation Nonconformists nonconformity opinions Parliament party pastor persecution persecutors persons piety place of worship polity Popery prayer preached preachers Presbyterian present principles Protestant public worship pulpit Puritans Quakers reign religion religious liberty says scriptures sects sermon society soon spirit Spring Hill College things thousand tion toleration town truth views Wednesbury Wesley Westminster Assembly William zeal
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Página 63 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Página 256 - Scripture, can derive itself from the fountain, but may be plainly proved, either to have been brought in, in such an age after Christ, or that in such an age it was not in. In a word, there is no sufficient certainty but of Scripture only, for any considering man to build upon.
Página 38 - In a few months there remained not a trace indicating that the most formidable army in the world had just been absorbed into the mass of the community.
Página 254 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of...
Página 168 - A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, On thy kind arms I fall ; Be thou my strength and righteousness, My Jesus, and my all.
Página 34 - But we do hope to find out all your tricks, Your plots and packing, worse than those of Trent, That so the Parliament May, with their wholesome and preventive shears, Clip your phylacteries, though baulk your ears, And succour our just fears When they shall read this clearly in your charge, New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large.
Página 52 - London, formerly called Presbyterian and Congregational ; not as a Measure for any National Constitution, but for the Preservation of Order in our Congregations, that cannot come up to the Common Rule by Law established.
Página 257 - Propose me any thing out of this Book, and require whether I believe it or no, and seem it never so incomprehensible to human reason, I will subscribe it with hand and heart, as knowing no demonstration can be stronger than this : " God hath said so, therefore it is true.
Página 34 - Dare ye for this adjure the civil sword To force our consciences that Christ set free, And ride us with a Classic Hierarchy, Taught ye by mere AS and...
Página 38 - The Royalists themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the discarded warriors prospered beyond other men, that none was charged with any theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that, if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he was in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers.