History of Christian Churches and Sects, from the Earliest Ages of Christianity, المجلد 2R. Bentley, 1856 |
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الصفحة 15 - An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws." After rescinding many penal statutes enacted at different periods since the accession of Queen Elizabeth, so far as they related to Protestants dissenting from the Church of England, this
الصفحة 367 - under grace' (the state most who are called Christians are content to live and die in), for I was only striving with, not freed from, sin. Neither had I the witness of the Spirit with my spirit, and indeed could not; for I sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of
الصفحة 15 - articles of religion, except the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirtysixth, and these words in the twentieth:—" The Church hath power to decree rites, or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith." The Baptists are exempted from subscribing part of the twenty-seventh article, respecting infant baptism; and the Quakers are required to declare
الصفحة 368 - very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate-strect, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did
الصفحة 108 - And we shall endeavour to bring the Church of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion, confession of faith, form of Church government, directory for worship, and catechising; that we, and our posterity after us, may, as brethren, live in faith and love, and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of
الصفحة 368 - in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
الصفحة 380 - another, helping each other in business; and so much the more, because the world will love its own, and them only ; " By all possible diligence and frugality, that the gospel he not blamed; "By running with patience the race that is set before them, denying themselves, and taking up their cross
الصفحة 369 - comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.' In reading these passages of Scripture he was enabled to view Christ as 'Set forth to be a propitiation for his sins, through faith in his blood,
الصفحة 393 - as much as any man in England; for the uninterrupted succession I know to be a fable, which no man ever did or can prove. But this does in no wise interfere with my remaining in the Church of England; from which I have no more desire to separate than I had fifty years ago.
الصفحة 81 - or sheer hypocrisy, the lad professed to have been favoured, while in prayer, with a miraculous vision. •" A pillar of light above the brightness of the sun gradually descended upon me," he says, " and I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing