 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 Seiten
...throughout the colonies in defense of their privileges.1 Though I seldom attended any public worship, I oceeded to read aloud a minute account of the internal,...his departure, more entirely depressed in spirits ' oh to do jo; Onfce for five Sundays Successively. 'Had- he- been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps... | |
 | George Milton Janes - 1927 - 126 Seiten
...well known passage of his autobiography says: Though I seldom attended any public worship, I still had an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my subscription annually for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia.... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 Seiten
...purpose, whatever might be the sect, was never refused. Tho' I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and 1 regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting... | |
 | Gary C. Bryner, Noel B. Reynolds - 1987 - 206 Seiten
..."essentials" which were "to be found in all the religions we had in our country."67 He regularly paid his "annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had," and contributed his "mite" to the construction of new churches in Philadelphia, "whatever might be... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 Seiten
...purpose, whatever might be the sect, was never refused. Tho' I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its...Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia. He us'd to visit me sometimes as a friend, and admonish me to attend his administrations, and I was now... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 Seiten
...acceptable service of God was the doing good to man.... Though I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety and of its utility when rightly conducted. 25 We readily recognize this view as expressing the natural religion of the Enlightenment, with perhaps... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...our country." He "respected them all, tho' with different degrees of respect." He regularly paid his "annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had," contributed his "mite" to the construction of new churches in Philadelphia, "whatever might be their... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 Seiten
...purpose, whatever might be the sect, was never refused. Though I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its...sometimes as a friend, and admonish me to attend his administration.35 In his Maxims and Morals, Benjamin Franklin wrote many lessons, of which are the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...purpose, whatever might be the Sect, was never refused. — Tho' I seldom attended any Public Worship, I had still an Opinion of its Propriety, and of its...Presbyterian Minister or Meeting we had in Philadelphia. He us'd to visit me sometimes as a Friend, and admonish me to attend his Administrations, and I was now... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 Seiten
...service. Moreover, he writes in the Autobiography that, "Tho' I seldom attended any Public Worship, I had still an Opinion of its Propriety, and of its Utility when rightly conducted ..." (A:147).79 We get some sense of what Franklin intended by this qualification when we remember... | |
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I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia. 
