Religion and Education in America: With Notices of the State and Prospects of American Unitarianism, Popery, and African ColonizationT. Ward and Company, 1840 - 474 páginas |
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... I am strongly of opinion that it is just such a work as is wanted in Scotland in the present important crisis of our National Church . We have long been deluding ourselves with the idea that the Sovereign of Great Britain is not the Head.
... I am strongly of opinion that it is just such a work as is wanted in Scotland in the present important crisis of our National Church . We have long been deluding ourselves with the idea that the Sovereign of Great Britain is not the Head.
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... importance to the cause of truth for the reli- gious public in Great Britain to know . With this view , I was induced to commit my observations to writing , and to submit them , as I now do , to the public , through the press . In ...
... importance to the cause of truth for the reli- gious public in Great Britain to know . With this view , I was induced to commit my observations to writing , and to submit them , as I now do , to the public , through the press . In ...
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... importance to all concerned , to ascertain beforehand , by a reference to actual facts in the his- tory of other communities , the state of things in regard to morals and religion which is likely to result from its discontinuance . In ...
... importance to all concerned , to ascertain beforehand , by a reference to actual facts in the his- tory of other communities , the state of things in regard to morals and religion which is likely to result from its discontinuance . In ...
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... importance in regard to the particular subject of inquiry to which my attention was principally directed during my visit . Although I determined , in the course of the follow- ing work , to adhere pretty closely to the subject an ...
... importance in regard to the particular subject of inquiry to which my attention was principally directed during my visit . Although I determined , in the course of the follow- ing work , to adhere pretty closely to the subject an ...
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... importance , if not in time , is the Puritan emigration to New England . That portion of the United States of America which is commonly called New England , comprising the States of Massachusetts , Connecticut , Rhode Island , New ...
... importance , if not in time , is the Puritan emigration to New England . That portion of the United States of America which is commonly called New England , comprising the States of Massachusetts , Connecticut , Rhode Island , New ...
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Página 76 - For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Página 64 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Página 47 - I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go, at present, no farther than the instruments of their reformation.
Página 73 - If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Página 268 - In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united...
Página 355 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain : that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Página 6 - God, the Supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, for his own glory and the public good, and to this end hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defense and encouragement of them that are good, and for the punishment of evil-doers.
Página 63 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Página 257 - The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other...
Página 307 - The greatest part of British America was peopled by men who, after having shaken off the authority of the Pope, acknowledged no other religious supremacy: they brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity, which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion. This contributed powerfully to the establishment of a republic and a democracy in public affairs; and from the beginning, politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved.