Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D.R. L. Bryan Company, 1908 |
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... necessary to complete these works , the author was led to dis- cover the determined claim , preferred by the prelatic and Romish churches , to a greater conformity , in spirit and in order , to our republican institutions than any other ...
... necessary to complete these works , the author was led to dis- cover the determined claim , preferred by the prelatic and Romish churches , to a greater conformity , in spirit and in order , to our republican institutions than any other ...
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... necessary . A multitude not reduced to unity , by delegated power , is confusion , and invariably leads to that unity which is independent of the multitude , that is , to despotism . †† But great as is this latter evil , it is not so ...
... necessary . A multitude not reduced to unity , by delegated power , is confusion , and invariably leads to that unity which is independent of the multitude , that is , to despotism . †† But great as is this latter evil , it is not so ...
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... necessary qualification for citizenship ; in short , the rights , privileges , and immunities of the laity , if we may so Tocqueville , i . 453 , 466 , and ii . 23 , & c . * See Christ . Indep . of the Civil Govt . pp . 148-150 . Upon ...
... necessary qualification for citizenship ; in short , the rights , privileges , and immunities of the laity , if we may so Tocqueville , i . 453 , 466 , and ii . 23 , & c . * See Christ . Indep . of the Civil Govt . pp . 148-150 . Upon ...
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... necessary that it should assume a distinct and separate character . The patriarchal form of government , which , until this time , had generally prevailed , with few exceptions , throughout the east , may be regarded as republican , the ...
... necessary that it should assume a distinct and separate character . The patriarchal form of government , which , until this time , had generally prevailed , with few exceptions , throughout the east , may be regarded as republican , the ...
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... necessary , in all important cases , to have their approbation ; and when they were not consulted , they often re- monstrated so loudly , as to force the magistrates to listen to them . They also sometimes proposed laws , to be adopted ...
... necessary , in all important cases , to have their approbation ; and when they were not consulted , they often re- monstrated so loudly , as to force the magistrates to listen to them . They also sometimes proposed laws , to be adopted ...
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Página 280 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? why arc they then baptized for the dead...
Página 485 - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Página 202 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Página 156 - God alone is lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.
Página 241 - And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Página 279 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
Página 465 - ... nor can any man be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments, or peculiar mode of religious worship; and that no authority can, or ought to be vested in, or assumed by, any power whatever, that shall in any case interfere with, or in any manner control the rights of conscience, in the free exercise of religious worship.
Página 202 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Página 558 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 122 - The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.