A Lecture on the Protestant Faith

כריכה קדמית
1874 - 71 עמודים

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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

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עמוד 54 - Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
עמוד 29 - I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
עמוד 50 - For judgment I am come into this world; that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind.
עמוד 69 - For if any one should a little catechise the greatest part of the partizans of most of the sects in the world, he would not find, concerning those matters they are so zealous for, that they have any opinions of their own: much less would he have reason to think that they took them upon the examination of arguments and appearance of probability. They are resolved to stick to a party that education or interest has engaged them in; and there, like the common soldiers of...
עמוד 36 - ... evidence appears to him. If therefore men, however dignified or distinguished, command us to believe they are euilty of the highest folly and absurdity, because it is out of our power, but if they command us to believe, and annex rewards to belief, and severe penalties to unbelief, then they...
עמוד 70 - I have never united myself to any church because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their Articles of Belief and Confessions of Faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership...
עמוד 58 - Motte, in a discourse of much emotion and pathos, is said to have exclaimed aloud to his congregation, that he did not believe there was a Quaker, Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist in heaven, having paused to give his hearers time to stare and to wonder.
עמוד 64 - Take heart ! — the Waster builds again, — A charmed life old Goodness hath ; The tares may perish, — but the grain Is not for death.
עמוד 18 - Do you not know," said the cardinal to him, " that the Pope is above all councils ?" But " from the Pope ill informed," Luther appeals "to the Pope better informed." He also afterwards declared, "In what con"cerns the word of God and the faith, every " Christian is as good a judge for himself as "the Pope can be for him."* This conflict between the authority of the Church...
עמוד 34 - ... warm indignation against earthquakes or hurricanes. It is singular that a philosopher who needed the most liberal toleration should, by representing states of the understanding as moral or immoral, have offered the most philosophical apology for persecution.

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