The Book of Religions: Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, Or Opinions of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America : to which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together with Biographical Sketches

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J. Hayward, 1843 - 432 pages
 

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Page 285 - and thou shall know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.
Page 233 - the author must have been a Hindoo: — ' All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent.'
Page 30 - should be believed as an article ,of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church. " Of the Names and Number of the Canonical Books.— Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomium,
Page 37 - same, the Bread which we break is a partaking: of! the body of Christ; and likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ " Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of. bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be
Page 94 - Creed. THE SYMBOL, OR CREED OF ST. ATHANASIUS. " Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith; " Which faith except every one do keep entire and inviolate, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 112 - the like nature of baptism and the Lord's supper, because they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God. " The sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same,
Page 34 - Furthermore, we must receive God's promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us in Holy Scripture; and, in our doings, that will of God is to be followed, which we have expressly declared unto us in the Word of God.
Page 105 - if the dead rise not, then is not Christ risen ; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins: then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
Page 36 - Although, in the visible Church, the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometime the evil have chief authority in the ministration of the Word and Sacraments; yet, forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but in Christ's, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use
Page 36 - Lord!s Supper.—The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another; but rather it is a Sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death ; insomuch that, to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith,

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