Religion in England from 1800 to 1850: A History, with a Postscript on Subsequent Events, Band 1

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1884

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Seite 294 - Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Seite 11 - Ruler among the children of men, to whom the shields of the earth belong, — Gird on thy sword, thou most Mighty.
Seite 289 - There is no philosophy in my religion. I am of a very small and despised sect of Christians, known, if known at all, as Sandemanians, and our hope is founded on the faith that is in Christ.
Seite 378 - I had never known what the communion of man with man means. His was the freest, brotherliest, bravest human soul mine ever came in contact with: I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever, after trial enough, found in this world, or now hope to find.
Seite 171 - He professed openly his admiration of the Church of Rome, and his hatred of the Reformers. He delighted in the notion of an hierarchical system, of sacerdotal power, and of full ecclesiastical liberty. He felt scorn of the maxim, " The Bible and the Bible only is the religion of Protestants ;" and he gloried in accepting Tradition as a main instrument of religious teaching.
Seite 174 - What he did for me in point of religious opinion, was, first, to teach me the existence of the Church, as a substantive body or corporation ; next, to fix in me those anti-Erastian views of Church polity, which were one of the most prominent features of the Tractarian movement.
Seite 107 - During his last illness, the Rev. Mr. Gericke visited him frequently, and spent much of his time with him in conversing on the precious promises of God through Christ, in singing awakening hymns, and in offering his fervent prayers to God to comfort and strengthen his aged servant under his severe sufferings, to continue and increase his divine blessing upon his...
Seite 353 - ... own spirit in stillness, without being shut out from the consolatory faces of thy species ; would'st thou be alone and yet accompanied; solitary, yet not desolate; singular, yet not without some to keep thee in countenance ; a unit in aggregate ; a simple in composite : come with me into a Quakers
Seite 316 - Misraim, and Put. They found Egypt a morass, and converted it into the most fertile country of the world : they reared its pyramids, invented its hieroglyphics, gave letters to Greece and Rome, and through them to us ! The everlasting architecture of Africa still exists, the wonder of the world, though in ruins. Her mighty kingdoms have yet their record in history. She has poured forth her heroes on the field, given bishops to the church, and martyrs to the fires.
Seite 42 - Without the slightest warning, without the opportunity of a moment's immediate preparation, in the midst of the deepest tranquillity, at midnight, a voice was heard in the palace, not of singing men and singing women, not of revelry and mirth, but the cry> Behold, the Bridegroom cometh.

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