American Presbyterianism: Its Origin and Early History : Together with an Appendix of Letters and Documents, Many of which Have Recently Been Discovered

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Charles Scribner, 1885 - 373 oldal
 

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29. oldal - Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation, so that whatever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
25. oldal - 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.
93. oldal - We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England; though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it; But we go to practice the positive part of church reformation and propagate the gospel in America.
365. oldal - Opinions or practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external Peace and Order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the Censures of the Church, and by the power of the Civil Magistrate.
8. oldal - of the saints in this life to the end of the world; and doth by his own presence and Spirit, according to his promise, make them effectual thereunto There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ.
97. oldal - wynn and incite the natives of the country to the knowledge and obedience of the onlie true God and Saviour of mankind and the Christian faythe," was in the " royall intention and the adventurers free profession,
27. oldal - So that to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commandments out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience; and the requiring an implicit faith and an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, and reason also.
xix. oldal - By Order of the Church of England, all Presbyters are charged * to administer the Doctrine and Sacraments, and the Discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this
367. oldal - unalienable : They do not even wish to see any religious constitution aided by the civil power, further than may be necessary for protection and security, and, at the same time, may be equal and common to all others. " II. That, in perfect consistency with the above principle of common right, every Christian Church, or union
58. oldal - a General Synod of the most grave, pious, learned, and judicious divines of this Island, assisted by some from foreign parts professing the same religion with us, who may consider of all things necessary for the peace and good government of the Church, and represent the results of their consultation to Parliament, to be there allowed and

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