The design, rights, and duties of local churches: a sermon delivered at the installation of the Rev. Elias Cornelius as associate pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Salem, July 21, 1819Printed by Flagg and Gould, and sold by H. Whipple, Salem, 1819 - 54 pages |
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... accomplish the work progressively by the interposition of moral influence. The church is the society where this influence is to be exerted, the school of instruction and discipline. There, is the sacred light of truth to shine ...
... accomplish the work progressively by the interposition of moral influence. The church is the society where this influence is to be exerted, the school of instruction and discipline. There, is the sacred light of truth to shine ...
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... accomplished, the lively oracles were committed to the church, with the responsibility of contending earnestly for the doctrines, precepts and ordinances, contained in them. It is in reference to the agency of the Church in maintaining ...
... accomplished, the lively oracles were committed to the church, with the responsibility of contending earnestly for the doctrines, precepts and ordinances, contained in them. It is in reference to the agency of the Church in maintaining ...
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... accomplish this. But to uphold the worship of God, and to lead in the great work of religious education, professional instructors are required, qualified by piety and knowledge, for their employment, and devoted exclusively to their ...
... accomplish this. But to uphold the worship of God, and to lead in the great work of religious education, professional instructors are required, qualified by piety and knowledge, for their employment, and devoted exclusively to their ...
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... accomplish, and then that he has contravened his own appointment, and insured the defeat of his own designs in organizing the church, by admitting the unholy to membership, by means of a right administered in infancy. The children of ...
... accomplish, and then that he has contravened his own appointment, and insured the defeat of his own designs in organizing the church, by admitting the unholy to membership, by means of a right administered in infancy. The children of ...
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... accomplish the gracious purposes of heaven, than law books will accomplish the ends of civil government, without an organized administration. The concerns of agriculture and commerce, and science, and the arts, may be left to the ...
... accomplish the gracious purposes of heaven, than law books will accomplish the ends of civil government, without an organized administration. The concerns of agriculture and commerce, and science, and the arts, may be left to the ...
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Page 12 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 40 - Put on as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 13 - But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth ? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Page 13 - Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Page 52 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 3 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 34 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 12 - Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice : and the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people...
Page 13 - Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Page 6 - Bible, that she is called the salt of the earth, the light of the "world, and the pillar and ground of the truth.