The Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow, Volume 3Wodrow Society, 1843 |
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... account you gave me of it at Edinburgh . Nobody has been so kind as to give me an account of the excep- tions taken at my book , though I have publicly desired to be set right wherein I was wrong . I do not doubt but there may be se ...
... account you gave me of it at Edinburgh . Nobody has been so kind as to give me an account of the excep- tions taken at my book , though I have publicly desired to be set right wherein I was wrong . I do not doubt but there may be se ...
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... accounts from the Prince and Princess , who have read much of the first volume . The late Earl of Sunderland had read much of it . Six or eight of the Bishops have got it , and Sir Peter King has read it , and is better pleased with it ...
... accounts from the Prince and Princess , who have read much of the first volume . The late Earl of Sunderland had read much of it . Six or eight of the Bishops have got it , and Sir Peter King has read it , and is better pleased with it ...
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... account of the lives of the most eminent persons of the last age , in Church and State ; and he wants memoirs for the ... accounts about him . I have a good many original letters of his . The gentleman who desires this ac- count seems ...
... account of the lives of the most eminent persons of the last age , in Church and State ; and he wants memoirs for the ... accounts about him . I have a good many original letters of his . The gentleman who desires this ac- count seems ...
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... accounts from the Society for Propagat- ing Christian Knowledge , and the Missionaries in the East Indies . I would gladly know who is said to be the author of a paper I get weekly , the " Saint James ' Journal ; " it is written with a ...
... accounts from the Society for Propagat- ing Christian Knowledge , and the Missionaries in the East Indies . I would gladly know who is said to be the author of a paper I get weekly , the " Saint James ' Journal ; " it is written with a ...
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... accounts of Mr Clarehugh , and never expected any other than what you tell me of Mr Hunter . Nothing of the debates with your uncle , nor his answers , has come to my hand , save a sheet and a half in folio , he was pleased to give me ...
... accounts of Mr Clarehugh , and never expected any other than what you tell me of Mr Hunter . Nothing of the debates with your uncle , nor his answers , has come to my hand , save a sheet and a half in folio , he was pleased to give me ...
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Common terms and phrases
Aberdeen accounts Act of Assembly affair affectionately agreed ALEXANDER HENDERSON answer Arian Arminianism Assembly's Belfast brethren called censure Christ Christian Church of Scotland Colonel Commission Commissioner Committee copy day the Assembly Dear Brother DEAR BROTHER,-I Dear Sir debate declared Deism Divine doctrine doubt Drummore Dundas Edinburgh England exculpation favour give Glasgow hand hath hear heard hint History hope humble insisted Ireland judge judicatories Kiltearn King King's King's Bounty last Assembly lawyers LETTER libel Lochmaben Logan London Lord Grange Lordship Masterton matter ministers Moderator Necessary Existence Non-subscribers numerical opinion overture pamphlets papers persons Polton Pray prayer preached precognition Presbytery present pretty printed Professor Hamilton proof proven queries reason relevancy remarks ROBERT WODROW Scots seems sembly sent sentence sermon Simson Socinians speech spoke Synod teaching things thought tion to-morrow truth vindication vote William Livingston wish witnesses Wodrow write
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Page 151 - Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Page 22 - Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father : there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me.
Page ii - for the publication of the works of the fathers and early writers of the Reformed Church of Scotland.
Page 33 - Well, said the other, I am near the end of my race, hasting home, and there was never a schoolboy more desirous to have the play than I am to have leave of this world ; and in a few days (naming the time) I will sicken, and at such a time die. In my sickness I will be much out of case to speak any thing ; but I desire you may be with me as much as you can, and you shall see all will end well.
Page 152 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him ; but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page 452 - We have many irregularities in the celebration of that holy ordinance that cannot be yet rectified, at least not soon, especially here. I lie in the neighbourhood of the city of Glasgow, and we have confluences and multitudes. Perhaps I may have about three hundred of my own charge who are allowed to partake, and yet we will have a thousand, sometimes eleven or twelve hundred at our tables. I am obliged to preach in the fields a Sabbath or more sometimes before our Sacrament, and a Sabbath after...
Page 176 - ... fall in, and the King's gracious orders, which indeed I never looked for, should never take effect, I adore Providence, and hope I shall be easy, — this I am sure of, I shall never have his Ma'y or you to blame for it.
Page 377 - If any man love not our Lord JESUS CHRIST, let him be anathema, maranatha.
Page 435 - Assembly is ratified and confirmed suspending Mr. Simson from preaching and teaching, and all exercise of any ecclesiastical power or function, until another General Assembly shall think fit to take off this sentence. And the Assembly also give it as their judgment, that it is not fit or safe that he be further employed in teaching divinity...
Page 151 - ... whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is God over all blessed for evermore.