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... duty to oppose on all occasions and by all means . In preparing this work for the press , the Author has counted the ... duties connected with the pastoral charge of a congregation scattered over an extensive district of country . He ...
... duty to oppose on all occasions and by all means . In preparing this work for the press , the Author has counted the ... duties connected with the pastoral charge of a congregation scattered over an extensive district of country . He ...
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... duty to their God , and to the church , when they merely suspended the guilty individual from the exercise of his ecclesiastical functions , and declared him unfit to be any longer intrusted with the training of youth for the holy minis ...
... duty to their God , and to the church , when they merely suspended the guilty individual from the exercise of his ecclesiastical functions , and declared him unfit to be any longer intrusted with the training of youth for the holy minis ...
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... duty to testify publicly against the same or like defections , upon all proper occasions . 66 WILLIAM WILSON , ALEX . MONCRIEFF . " " I , Mr. James Fisher , minister at Kinclaven , appellant against the sentence of the Synod of Perth ...
... duty to testify publicly against the same or like defections , upon all proper occasions . 66 WILLIAM WILSON , ALEX . MONCRIEFF . " " I , Mr. James Fisher , minister at Kinclaven , appellant against the sentence of the Synod of Perth ...
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... duty to adhere thereunto , and to the papers given in this day under form of instrument . " t Mr. Wilson and Mr. Moncrieff were next interrogated , as to their willingness to withdraw their protest , and express their sorrow ; when they ...
... duty to adhere thereunto , and to the papers given in this day under form of instrument . " t Mr. Wilson and Mr. Moncrieff were next interrogated , as to their willingness to withdraw their protest , and express their sorrow ; when they ...
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... duty of ministers to testify against defections , then we shall be at liberty , and willing to withdraw our protest against the said act of Assembly , and particularly , we reserve to ourselves the liberty of testifying against the act ...
... duty of ministers to testify against defections , then we shall be at liberty , and willing to withdraw our protest against the said act of Assembly , and particularly , we reserve to ourselves the liberty of testifying against the act ...
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Popular passages
Page 380 - The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven ; yet he hath authority, and it is his duty, to take order, that unity and peace be preserved in the church...
Page 628 - GOD is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 168 - For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears ; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Page 820 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 383 - God alone is lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.
Page 698 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 455 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Page 380 - And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preserve one another; they who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of Godp.
Page 426 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, according to the Word of God. and the example of the best reformed Churches...
Page 695 - British possessions on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from Mississippi River on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west.