The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Volume 4

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Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson, Charles Colebrook Sherman, George William Gilmore
Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1909 - Theology
 

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Page 134 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 134 - Seeing now, dearly beloved brethren, that this child is regenerate, and grafted into the body of Christ's church ; let us give thanks unto Almighty God for these benefits, and with one accord make our prayers unto him, that this child may lead the rest of his life according to this beginning.
Page 1 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Page 131 - From all sedition and privy conspiracy, from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment.
Page 165 - WH Woodward, Desiderius Erasmus Concerning the Aim and Method of Education (Cambridge, 1904), pp. 195-96; Jonson, "Timber, or Discoveries
Page 193 - An act in addition to an act intituled An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, (a) SEC.
Page 219 - Scriptures. 3. The Unity of the Godhead, and the Trinity of Persons therein. 4. The utter Depravity of Human Nature, in consequence of the Fall. 5. The Incarnation of the Son of God, His work of Atonement for sinners of mankind, and His Mediatorial Intercession and Reign.
Page 219 - The right and duty of private judgment in the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
Page 330 - Reason, Scripture, and the Constitution (Shrewsbury, 1776). These writings were read at court and opened the way to high preferment, which he refused to consider. His principal works were Checks to Antinomianism, called forth by the dispute in 1771, and The Portrait of St. Paul, or the True Model for Christians and Pastors, translated from a French manuscript after Fletcher's death, with a notice of the author (2 vols., Shrewsbury, 1790). The first complete edition of his works appeared in London,...
Page 347 - Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.