Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism; Or, An Unsophisticated Exposition of Calvinism: With Hopkinsian Modifications and Policy, with a View to a More Easy Interpretation of the Same. To which is Added a Brief Account of the Life and Travels of Teh Author; Interspersed with AnecdotesT., F. S. Heiskell, printer, 1834 - 299 pages |
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... Episcopal Church , and of the City of Philadelphia , was the first President , of the first organized Sabbath school in the United States ; and if I am not greatly deceived , the Bishop still holds the same of- fice to this day . The ...
... Episcopal Church , and of the City of Philadelphia , was the first President , of the first organized Sabbath school in the United States ; and if I am not greatly deceived , the Bishop still holds the same of- fice to this day . The ...
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... Episcopal , the Reformed Dutch , the Baptist , and the Methodist Churches , and the Friends or Quakers , have their ... Church in the United States . And by the by , I award , as has always been done , to the Episcopalians the priority in the ...
... Episcopal , the Reformed Dutch , the Baptist , and the Methodist Churches , and the Friends or Quakers , have their ... Church in the United States . And by the by , I award , as has always been done , to the Episcopalians the priority in the ...
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... EPISCOPAL CHURCH ; " and at our first An- nual meeting , held on Wednesday evening , the 14th of May , 1828 , there were in connexion with our union , 891 schools , embracing 45,750 scholars , and 8,910 teachers employed ev- ery Sabbath ...
... EPISCOPAL CHURCH ; " and at our first An- nual meeting , held on Wednesday evening , the 14th of May , 1828 , there were in connexion with our union , 891 schools , embracing 45,750 scholars , and 8,910 teachers employed ev- ery Sabbath ...
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... Episcopal Church only , but in reference to all Sunday School associations , which may choose to avail them- selves of the advantages growing out of the suppression of copy - rights . This proposition was made , because it was be ...
... Episcopal Church only , but in reference to all Sunday School associations , which may choose to avail them- selves of the advantages growing out of the suppression of copy - rights . This proposition was made , because it was be ...
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... Episcopal Church , have contributed more money to the American Sunday School Union , than would replace every dollar they have paid out for copy - rights , with compound interest . Why then may we not claim some " ad- vantage , " if we ...
... Episcopal Church , have contributed more money to the American Sunday School Union , than would replace every dollar they have paid out for copy - rights , with compound interest . Why then may we not claim some " ad- vantage , " if we ...
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Page 238 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 204 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 204 - As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, fore-ordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore they who are elected being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season; are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power through faith unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the...
Page 205 - Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the law of that religion they do profess; and to assert and maintain that they may is very pernicious, and to be detested.
Page 205 - All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...
Page 204 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory...
Page 205 - Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth. So also are all other elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word.
Page 222 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 204 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 288 - My hopes of being remember'd in my line With my land's language: if too fond and far These aspirations in their scope incline, — If my fame should be, as my fortunes are, Of hasty growth; and blight, and dull oblivion bar...