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... Meetings for worship may be held in silence.- Public worship an indispensable duty - reasonable and beneficial . - Silent worship adapted to all states . Its advantages . Scripture arguments for it . - Prayer a necessary duty . - The ...
... Meetings for worship may be held in silence.- Public worship an indispensable duty - reasonable and beneficial . - Silent worship adapted to all states . Its advantages . Scripture arguments for it . - Prayer a necessary duty . - The ...
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... - Particular objects of our discipline enumerated . - Different Meetings in which it is transacted . Importance of trans- acting it in a right spirit .. .............. 167 CHAP . XIII . THE CONCLUSION . Address to the TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... - Particular objects of our discipline enumerated . - Different Meetings in which it is transacted . Importance of trans- acting it in a right spirit .. .............. 167 CHAP . XIII . THE CONCLUSION . Address to the TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... Meetings for worship may be held in silence . - Public worship an indispensable duty -reasonable and beneficial . - Silent worship adapted to all states . Its advantages . Scripture arguments for it . - Prayer a necessary duty . The ...
... Meetings for worship may be held in silence . - Public worship an indispensable duty -reasonable and beneficial . - Silent worship adapted to all states . Its advantages . Scripture arguments for it . - Prayer a necessary duty . The ...
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... meetings , whether in prayer , praises , or in the exercise of gospel ministry ; when they are delivered under the influence of the Holy Spirit , which only can , as we appre- hend , rightly qualify for the performance of these ...
... meetings , whether in prayer , praises , or in the exercise of gospel ministry ; when they are delivered under the influence of the Holy Spirit , which only can , as we appre- hend , rightly qualify for the performance of these ...
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... meetings . We fear that some who attend them , have not their minds rightly exercised ; we know that Divine good is not at our command : and we believe that the sensible enjoyment of it , is often withheld for a season , and sometimes ...
... meetings . We fear that some who attend them , have not their minds rightly exercised ; we know that Divine good is not at our command : and we believe that the sensible enjoyment of it , is often withheld for a season , and sometimes ...
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Popular passages
Page 77 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 140 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Page 69 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
Page 131 - But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Page 134 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 186 - Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Page 102 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh : and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my hand-maidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy...
Page 135 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: But I say unto you, Swear not at all...
Page 159 - But all their works they do for to be seen of men : they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
Page 67 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.