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... body co - operating with the government in the education of the people . Parent , King , and Clergy , then , are the three authorised witnesses of God to whom you must listen . You cannot omit one without great danger and folly . And if ...
... body co - operating with the government in the education of the people . Parent , King , and Clergy , then , are the three authorised witnesses of God to whom you must listen . You cannot omit one without great danger and folly . And if ...
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... body of clergy , all teaching the same truths , and teaching by the same authority , they are split up into several . Every town , and almost every village , has two or more individuals professing to be ministers of God , and opposed to ...
... body of clergy , all teaching the same truths , and teaching by the same authority , they are split up into several . Every town , and almost every village , has two or more individuals professing to be ministers of God , and opposed to ...
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... body whom it respects , and wishes to be respected and to be listened to by all its subjects . And so it has done for more than 1200 years . Now with these two voices joining together , you must be running a great risk , setting at ...
... body whom it respects , and wishes to be respected and to be listened to by all its subjects . And so it has done for more than 1200 years . Now with these two voices joining together , you must be running a great risk , setting at ...
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... body , to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; but what that body saith , that will I speak . ' I may be ignorant : I have many faults ; I may be weak and old ; unworthy , most unworthy , of being employed as a messenger from God to ...
... body , to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; but what that body saith , that will I speak . ' I may be ignorant : I have many faults ; I may be weak and old ; unworthy , most unworthy , of being employed as a messenger from God to ...
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... body or society , of which I need not tell you that the name is the Church . They dele- gated to us the power to which , if you would ever become good , you must have recourse at our hands . They bound us to watch over you , to teach ...
... body or society , of which I need not tell you that the name is the Church . They dele- gated to us the power to which , if you would ever become good , you must have recourse at our hands . They bound us to watch over you , to teach ...
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Page 226 - BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be. the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God.
Page 100 - And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body...
Page 223 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 260 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page 120 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 260 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Page 184 - Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
Page 164 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 86 - And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them...
Page 153 - For I know that in me (that is in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.