A Plea for Voluntary Societies: And a Defence of the Decisions of the General Assembly of 1836, Against the Strictures of the Princeton Reviewers and Others

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J. S. Taylor, 1837 - 187 trang
 

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Trang 187 - 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 long-suffering, 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...
Trang 135 - Christ, owing to the union of the divine and human nature in the person of the mediator, were a full equivalent.
Trang 145 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Trang 54 - That the Presbyterian Church in the United States is a Missionary Society; the object of which is to aid in the conversion of the world; and that every member of the Church is a member for life of said Society, and bound in maintenance of his Christian character, to do all in his power for the accomplishment of this object.
Trang 36 - Presbyterian church, who shall make annually to the General Assembly, a report of their proceedings, and submit for its approval, such plans and measures as may be deemed useful and necessary.
Trang 84 - Before any overtures, or regulations, proposed by the assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary to transmit them to all the presbyteries, and to receive the returns of at least a majority of them, in writing, approving thereof.
Trang 24 - ... and the salt of the earth, and that a city set on a hill cannot be hid.
Trang 59 - It is regarded as of vital importance to the welfare of our Church, that foreign as well as domestic missions should be more zealously prosecuted, and more liberally patronized ; and that as a nucleus of Foreign Missionary effort and operation, the Western Foreign Missionary Society...
Trang 37 - Missions, to be constituted by this agreement, shall be taken in the name of the trustees of the General Assembly, and held in trust by them for the use and benefit of the Board of Foreign Missions for the time being.
Trang 35 - That the General Assembly will superintend and conduct, by its own proper authority, the work of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, by a Board appointed for that purpose and directly amenable to said Assembly.

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