Thoughts on the Anglican and Anglo-American Churches

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B. J. Holdsworth, 1823 - 500 pages
 

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Page 376 - Hear, 0 Zion, the word of thy God, and rejoice for the consolation. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord; and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. The
Page 439 - be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you, yourselves, thrust out. And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 40 - gladly stay. Send me where Thou wilt. I will endeavour to submit. Only go with me, and Thy pleasure shall be mine. -"I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and steer Right onward.
Page 473 - 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.
Page 477 - both sides, however, it is a presumptuous intrusion into things unseen and unrevealed; and a practical forgetfulness of the words of God by Moses; the secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are "revealed belong to us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 254 - of young people springing up, and increasing in numbers and graces, like willows by the water-courses. In a word, the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the hungry are fed, the burdened are set at liberty. With these tokens of the Lord's presence amongst us, and his goodness afforded in my private
Page 225 - know not how, to be taken for granted, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious; and, accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this was an agreed point among all people of discernment;
Page 225 - an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule; as it were, by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 311 - our reason for affirming a jealousy of the popular voice in the appointment of clergy, on the part of the British legislature, is founded on an examination of their recent act for building, and promoting the building, of additional churches in populous parishes. Though the parliamentary grant for this object
Page 477 - unto the Lord our God; but those things which are "revealed belong to us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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