Theology and Piety Alike Free: From the Point of View of Manchester New College, Oxford : a Contribution to Its EffortKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1890 - 447 pages |
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... Presbyterian Puritanism , the College , with its pervading pursuit of the highest culture , its perfect intellectual liberty , and its inspiration of a personal piety , exempt from the hindrances and embarrassments of ecclesiasti- cism ...
... Presbyterian Puritanism , the College , with its pervading pursuit of the highest culture , its perfect intellectual liberty , and its inspiration of a personal piety , exempt from the hindrances and embarrassments of ecclesiasti- cism ...
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... Presbyterians have resisted every attempt to proscribe " free inquiry . " They have jealously guarded their Churches from Dogmatic stipula- tions ; and in the successive " Academies , " from Rathmell to Warrington , which constitute the ...
... Presbyterians have resisted every attempt to proscribe " free inquiry . " They have jealously guarded their Churches from Dogmatic stipula- tions ; and in the successive " Academies , " from Rathmell to Warrington , which constitute the ...
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... Presbyterian Dissenters of England , above a century ago , refused to bear a part in the imposition of a creed framed in human language , declaring thereby that the recognition of the divine authority of Scripture ought to be the sole ...
... Presbyterian Dissenters of England , above a century ago , refused to bear a part in the imposition of a creed framed in human language , declaring thereby that the recognition of the divine authority of Scripture ought to be the sole ...
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... Presbyterian Dissenters , then , we may reasonably boast , that " we are children not of the bondwoman , but of the free . " In choosing this subject on which to address you to - day , my Christian friends , it has been my intention to ...
... Presbyterian Dissenters , then , we may reasonably boast , that " we are children not of the bondwoman , but of the free . " In choosing this subject on which to address you to - day , my Christian friends , it has been my intention to ...
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... Presbyterian Dissent has declined , it has certainly not done so in this county . As age has removed one generation of Ministers from the scene of their earthly labours , another has been ready to fill their place , not exactly ...
... Presbyterian Dissent has declined , it has certainly not done so in this county . As age has removed one generation of Ministers from the scene of their earthly labours , another has been ready to fill their place , not exactly ...
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Page ix - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Page 226 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe, which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 329 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
Page xx - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...
Page 305 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 305 - Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him ? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him : was not this to know me ? saith the LORD.
Page 329 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.
Page 397 - I am come that they may have life, and may have it abundantly." And this I accept as an authoritative description of Christ's mission. But if it is so accepted, I must go on to point out that the possession of life must be taken as the proof of contact and communion with Christ ; that the qualifications for standing in the line of Christian affiliation...
Page ix - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Page xx - And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof. And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb.