Preface to the Laws of Ecclesiastical PolityUniversity Press, 1922 - 74 pages |
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Page 1 - Though for no other cause, yet for this, that posterity may know we have not loosely, through silence, permitted things to pass away as in a dream...
Page 40 - According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do ; thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee to the right hand, nor to the left.
Page 22 - Family of Love" have it once in their heads, that Christ doth not signify any one person, but a quality whereof many are partakers ; that to be "raised...
Page 14 - Of what account the Master of Sentences1 was in the church of Rome, the same and more amongst the preachers of reformed churches Calvin had purchased ; so that the perfectest divines were judged they, which were skilfullest in Calvin's writings. His books almost the very canon to judge both doctrine and discipline by 2.
Page 16 - I mean to say is but this: there will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
Page 29 - We require you to find out but one church upon the face of the whole earth, that hath been ordered by your discipline, or hath not been ordered by ours, that is to say, by episcopal regiment, sithence the time that the blessed Apostles were here conversant.
Page 32 - True it is, the ancienter," the better ceremonies of religion are: howbeit, not absolutely true, and without exception; but true only so far forth as those different ages do agree in the state of those things, for which, at the first, those rites, orders, and ceremonies, were instituted. In the apostles...
Page 40 - God shall choose ; and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days...
Page 67 - ... with you in bands of indissoluble love and amity, to live as if our persons being many, our souls were but one, rather than in such dismembered sort to spend our few and wretched days in a tedious prosecuting of wearisome contentions...
Page 66 - ... lay aside the gall of that bitterness wherein your minds have hitherto over-abounded, and with meekness to search the truth.