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A Discourse of the Right of the Church in a Christian State (1841) Herbert Thorndike No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 303 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Page 101 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 29 - By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith, 20 among them Hy-me-nae'us and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Page 343 - A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject ; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Page 44 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Page 28 - For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?
Page 12 - ... incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building : wherein a few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. Whereunto baptism being of the like form, now saveth you also ; not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is on the right hand of God.
Page 378 - An apostle not of men nor by men, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead.
Page 40 - He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches...