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Christian Love, as Exemplified by the First Christian Church, a Sermon Charles Chauncy No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 9 - And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and pallets, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
Page 7 - It overwhelmed all worldly confiderations in the expectation of a more important exiftence. " And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one foul...
Page 17 - Every man according as he purpofeth in his heart fo let him give, not grudgingly, or of neceffity, for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 15 - Whilft it remained, was it not thine own ? And after it was fold, was it not in thine own power ? Why haft thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? Thou haft not lied unto men, but unto God.e But what followed this covetoufnefs and hypocrify of Ananias ? Why, Ananias hearing thefe words, he fell down, and gave up the ghoft.
Page 13 - multitude of them that believed, were of one heart and of " one foul: neither faid any of them that ought of the " things which he poflefled was his own, but they had all things common.
Page 14 - Neither was there any among them that ' lacked : for as many as were poflefTors of lands or houfes, fold them, and brought the prices of the things that were fold, and laid them down at the apoftles feet : and diftribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 5 - Christian Love, as exemplified by the first Christian church in their Having All Things in Common, placed in its true and just point of light. In A Sermon, Preached at the Thursday-Lecture, in Boston, August 3d.
Page 10 - Chrift, to walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, with a becoming care of being blamelefs ? We are vifibly under great decays as to the life of religion.
Page 16 - IT may be further worthy of notice, the new-teltament writers are fo far from reducing all chriftians to a level, by putting them upon having all things in common, that they...