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... never forget . He said he had never united himself to any church , because he found difficulty in giving his assent , without mental reservations , to the long complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their ...
... never forget . He said he had never united himself to any church , because he found difficulty in giving his assent , without mental reservations , to the long complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their ...
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... never going out of themselves , but subsiding farther and deeper within ; so infinitely wise , yet infinitely stagnant ; until , at last , in that same Asia , but in the western part of it , appeared a youth , wholly unforetold by them ...
... never going out of themselves , but subsiding farther and deeper within ; so infinitely wise , yet infinitely stagnant ; until , at last , in that same Asia , but in the western part of it , appeared a youth , wholly unforetold by them ...
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... never the twain shall meet . No individual can undergo an authentic conversion to the Lord Jesus Christ in some hidden area of personal ethics where the Savior reigns without that person's whole attitude to the business order , his ...
... never the twain shall meet . No individual can undergo an authentic conversion to the Lord Jesus Christ in some hidden area of personal ethics where the Savior reigns without that person's whole attitude to the business order , his ...
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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