Religious Denominations of the WorldBradley, Garretson & Company, 1872 - 588 pages |
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Page 79 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 84 - Secondly, By doing good, by being in every kind merciful after their power, as they have opportunity, doing good of every possible sort, and, as far as possible, to all men.
Page 570 - Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Page 85 - ... must give an account. We will admonish him of the error of his ways; we will bear with him for a season ; but then, if he repent not, he hath no more place among us. We have delivered our own souls.
Page 438 - For if the dead rise not, then is not CHRIST raised : and if CHRIST be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in CHRIST are perished.
Page 146 - Be immersed, every one of you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Page 304 - And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
Page 83 - But, wherever this is really fixed in the soul, it will be shown by its fruits. It is therefore expected of all who continue therein, that they should continue to evidence their desire of salvation. First by doing no harm, by avoiding evil...
Page 40 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Page 70 - God, in his wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ...