The Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow, Volume 3Wodrow Society, 1843 |
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... judge , by this standard , of the usefulness and importance of the facts thus brought to light . The public have of late shown an extreme anxiety to be put in possession of the materiel of history ; and they have , therefore , less ...
... judge , by this standard , of the usefulness and importance of the facts thus brought to light . The public have of late shown an extreme anxiety to be put in possession of the materiel of history ; and they have , therefore , less ...
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... judges are satisfied with the book in general ; and I hope it may be of some use in England , where I hear severals of rank have read it , and are better pleased than I could well have expected . I have accounts from the Prince and ...
... judges are satisfied with the book in general ; and I hope it may be of some use in England , where I hear severals of rank have read it , and are better pleased than I could well have expected . I have accounts from the Prince and ...
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... judges of ) is their Great Diana , to which the Scriptures must yield . The Bible shall be my foundation , and no confession of fallible men , especially such large ones , with some very abstruse notions as ours , of 170 articles , and ...
... judges of ) is their Great Diana , to which the Scriptures must yield . The Bible shall be my foundation , and no confession of fallible men , especially such large ones , with some very abstruse notions as ours , of 170 articles , and ...
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... judges than I can allow myself to be in these matters , advise me , I at pre- sent incline to be silent , till Mr Bruce publish his large work in two folios , and give him , and any others who shall find cause to quarrel what I have ...
... judges than I can allow myself to be in these matters , advise me , I at pre- sent incline to be silent , till Mr Bruce publish his large work in two folios , and give him , and any others who shall find cause to quarrel what I have ...
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... judge of the effects of things , be they never so well laid and designed , in an age of such looseness and licentiousness as we are fallen into . But what you have concluded appears to me the most proper expedients at this juncture ...
... judge of the effects of things , be they never so well laid and designed , in an age of such looseness and licentiousness as we are fallen into . But what you have concluded appears to me the most proper expedients at this juncture ...
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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
Popular passages
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.