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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... Unitarians in respect of doctrine, nor with Catholics in respect of government--the errors of the latter on the subject of government, in as far as they dethrone the Scripture from its supremacy over the faith and consciences of men, being, in fact, the indefinite source of all sorts of error in regard to the doctrine. But apart from these, and perhaps from one or two more who can be named, I think we might recognise in almost every denomination a personal Christianity, which is not even brought to hazard by the peculiarity either of their articles or their forms; and without disputing the superior expediency of one kind of government to another, I do think that, considering the manifold ties of common sentiment and principle between us and the evangelical sectaries of Christendom, it were better that we drew more closely together, and that the movement, at all events, instead of being one of wider distance and separation, were in the way of kindlier and more intimate converse than we have hitherto held. BOOK VI.-CHAP. III. NATURE AND EXTENT OP POWER IMPLIED IN CHURCH GOVERNMENT. THE PRAYER. 0 God, Thou art the Ancient of days, Thy years are from everlasting, and of Thine endurance there is no end. Thou comprehendest all time, and fillest all space with Thy presence and with Thy power. It is only by the notices which Thou hast given in Thy works and which Thou hast given in Thy word, that we can climb our ascending way to the abode of the Eternal. And we desire, instead of meddling with matters too high for us, that we should be satisfied humbly to learn and faithfully to apply. Deliver us from the power of all lofty and delusive imaginations, and enable us to bring every thought of our hearts into captivity to the obedience of Christ. And seeing that the t...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... Unitarians in respect of doctrine, nor with Catholics in respect of government--the errors of the latter on the subject of government, in as far as they dethrone the Scripture from its supremacy over the faith and consciences of men, being, in fact, the indefinite source of all sorts of error in regard to the doctrine. But apart from these, and perhaps from one or two more who can be named, I think we might recognise in almost every denomination a personal Christianity, which is not even brought to hazard by the peculiarity either of their articles or their forms; and without disputing the superior expediency of one kind of government to another, I do think that, considering the manifold ties of common sentiment and principle between us and the evangelical sectaries of Christendom, it were better that we drew more closely together, and that the movement, at all events, instead of being one of wider distance and separation, were in the way of kindlier and more intimate converse than we have hitherto held. BOOK VI.-CHAP. III. NATURE AND EXTENT OP POWER IMPLIED IN CHURCH GOVERNMENT. THE PRAYER. 0 God, Thou art the Ancient of days, Thy years are from everlasting, and of Thine endurance there is no end. Thou comprehendest all time, and fillest all space with Thy presence and with Thy power. It is only by the notices which Thou hast given in Thy works and which Thou hast given in Thy word, that we can climb our ascending way to the abode of the Eternal. And we desire, instead of meddling with matters too high for us, that we should be satisfied humbly to learn and faithfully to apply. Deliver us from the power of all lofty and delusive imaginations, and enable us to bring every thought of our hearts into captivity to the obedience of Christ. And seeing that the t...
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