A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginiaauthor, 1810 - 446 Seiten |
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... lived somewhere in the southern states , and who was a brother - in - law of Mr. Marshall . He and Mr. Stearns ordained Mr. Mar- shall to the care of this new church . The work of grace continued to spread , and several preachers were ...
... lived somewhere in the southern states , and who was a brother - in - law of Mr. Marshall . He and Mr. Stearns ordained Mr. Mar- shall to the care of this new church . The work of grace continued to spread , and several preachers were ...
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... lived somewhere north of the Rappahannock , to come and preach for them , and teach them the ways of God more perfectly ; he came , but in his preach- ing expressed some disapprobation of the preaching of such weak and illiterate ...
... lived somewhere north of the Rappahannock , to come and preach for them , and teach them the ways of God more perfectly ; he came , but in his preach- ing expressed some disapprobation of the preaching of such weak and illiterate ...
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... lived and died a pious christian , and a faithful as well as ufeful minifter of Chrift ; he was a poor man , and had a family to la- bour for , which prevented him from being as exten- fively useful , as he would probably have been , un ...
... lived and died a pious christian , and a faithful as well as ufeful minifter of Chrift ; he was a poor man , and had a family to la- bour for , which prevented him from being as exten- fively useful , as he would probably have been , un ...
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... lived in the fame church , doctor Thomas Chis- man , a practitioner of phyfic , but who , professing grace was baptized about '81 or '82 : he foon com- menced preaching , and foon alfo became popular ; with the judicious he never ranked ...
... lived in the fame church , doctor Thomas Chis- man , a practitioner of phyfic , but who , professing grace was baptized about '81 or '82 : he foon com- menced preaching , and foon alfo became popular ; with the judicious he never ranked ...
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... lived many years and during his life , dis- charged the duties of his office with as much diligence , judgement , and success , as any minifter in Virginia could have done . These may be called emphatically the precious sons of Zion ...
... lived many years and during his life , dis- charged the duties of his office with as much diligence , judgement , and success , as any minifter in Virginia could have done . These may be called emphatically the precious sons of Zion ...
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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.