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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... preacher of every persuasion pursues the course which conscience points out to him , in edifying his flock , without the fear of molestation , or with no other interrup- tion than that which occasionally arises from the attempts of ...
... preacher of every persuasion pursues the course which conscience points out to him , in edifying his flock , without the fear of molestation , or with no other interrup- tion than that which occasionally arises from the attempts of ...
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... preach , on the earnings of the more meritorious part of the community . And the reason why these young men , buz and fly about so much like hornets , when any thing is said against these societies is , they know very well , that if ...
... preach , on the earnings of the more meritorious part of the community . And the reason why these young men , buz and fly about so much like hornets , when any thing is said against these societies is , they know very well , that if ...
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... preach , or converse , I make it a point to call no man master , and to bow the knee to no system as such ; nor do I seek the applause or dread the frowns of any . While , then , I meet , perhaps with the approbation of some , I must of ...
... preach , or converse , I make it a point to call no man master , and to bow the knee to no system as such ; nor do I seek the applause or dread the frowns of any . While , then , I meet , perhaps with the approbation of some , I must of ...
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... preached morning and afternoon , in Bingley church , before service I stepped into the Sunday school , which contains two hundred and forty children , taught every Sunday , by several masters . So , many children in one par- ish are ...
... preached morning and afternoon , in Bingley church , before service I stepped into the Sunday school , which contains two hundred and forty children , taught every Sunday , by several masters . So , many children in one par- ish are ...
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... preached throughout every part of Eng- land , in behalf of these schools , and considerable sums of money were raised for their support . The Sunday schools in those days , it will be recollected , were ordinary schools , only taught on ...
... preached throughout every part of Eng- land , in behalf of these schools , and considerable sums of money were raised for their support . The Sunday schools in those days , it will be recollected , were ordinary schools , only taught on ...
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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...