A Vindication of the Dissenters in Oxford: Addressed to the Inhabitants; in Reply to Dr. Tatham's Sermon, Lately Published, After Having Been Preached in Oxford Many Sundays Successively. By James Hinton

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author. Sold, 1792 - Church and state - 20 pages
 

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Page 12 - A Bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity...
Page 11 - To the law and to the teftimony, if they fpeak not according to this word, it is becaufe there is no light in them.
Page 10 - He who goes about to speak of the mystery of the Trinity, and does it by words and names of man's invention, talking of essences and existences, hypostases and personalities, priorities in co-equalities, and unity in pluralities, may amuse himself and build a tabernacle in his head, and talk something he knows not what ; but the good man, who feels the power of the Father, and to whom.
Page 10 - build a tabernacle in his head, and TALK fomething, he knows.

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