A History of the Disciples of Christ, the Society of Friends, the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Association

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Christian Literature Company, 1894 - 519 pages
 

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Page 62 - I am not ashamed ; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Page 87 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 12 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 54 - Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
Page 97 - The two Sacraments ordained by Christ himself, — Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, — ministered with unfailing use of Christ's words of Institution, and of the elements ordained by him. 4. The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of his church.
Page 228 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 185 - And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do; then, Oh ! then I heard a voice which said, ' There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition.
Page 86 - All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all ; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.
Page 115 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage...
Page 79 - And the Word of God increased ; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly : and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith

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