A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginiaauthor, 1810 - 446 Seiten |
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... business badly conducted . God has left many promises , that he will not always chide nor be angry with his people ; that he will turn again the captivity of Zion , & c . The long and great de- clenfion , induced many to fear , that the ...
... business badly conducted . God has left many promises , that he will not always chide nor be angry with his people ; that he will turn again the captivity of Zion , & c . The long and great de- clenfion , induced many to fear , that the ...
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... business is commonly completed in two days . In Virginia , moft , if not all the affociations , include Sunday , as one of the days for their being together . Nothing is attended to on this day , except preaching , * In a time of ...
... business is commonly completed in two days . In Virginia , moft , if not all the affociations , include Sunday , as one of the days for their being together . Nothing is attended to on this day , except preaching , * In a time of ...
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... business of these affociations , was to receive petitions and to appoint preachers to travel into new places , where the gofpel was likely to flourish . " We continued together ( fays the manufcript of James Read , who was prefent ) ...
... business of these affociations , was to receive petitions and to appoint preachers to travel into new places , where the gofpel was likely to flourish . " We continued together ( fays the manufcript of James Read , who was prefent ) ...
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... business . * It was , however , privately agreed upon among the Virginia delegates , to hold an occafional feffion , at E. Craig's Meeting Houfe , in Orange county , the fecond Saturday in May 1771 . This was defigned more particularly ...
... business . * It was , however , privately agreed upon among the Virginia delegates , to hold an occafional feffion , at E. Craig's Meeting Houfe , in Orange county , the fecond Saturday in May 1771 . This was defigned more particularly ...
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Robert Baylor Semple. * nion . On Tuesday , when they met , the business be- came very diftreffing . The Arminian party , having the Moderator with them , withdrew out of doors . The other fide also withdrew , and chose John Wil- liams ...
Robert Baylor Semple. * nion . On Tuesday , when they met , the business be- came very diftreffing . The Arminian party , having the Moderator with them , withdrew out of doors . The other fide also withdrew , and chose John Wil- liams ...
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Seite 157 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Seite 158 - He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and to address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God's commission to the heart ! So did not Paul.
Seite 211 - For this cause also thank we GOD without ceasing, because when ye received the Word of GOD, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of man, but as it is in truth, the Word of GOD, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Seite 403 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...
Seite 42 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Seite 403 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day : we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Seite 403 - It is unalienable, also, because what is here a right towards men is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of civil society.
Seite 32 - Starke, from the committee appointed, presented, according to order, a bill ' For exempting the different societies of dissenters from contributing to the support and maintenance of the church as by law established, and its ministers, and for other purposes therein mentioned ' ; which was read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time.
Seite 403 - ... the powers of this world. It is a contradiction to fact, for it is known that this religion both existed and flourished not only without the support of human laws but in spite of every opposition from them; and not only during the period of miraculous aid but long after it had been left to its own evidence and the ordinary care of Providence.
Seite 403 - all men are by nature equally free and independent," all men are to be considered as entering into Society on equal conditions: as relinquishing no more and therefore retaining no less, one than another, of their natural rights. Above all are they to be considered as retaining an "equal title to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience.