1702-1902: The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Parish Church of Stow, Massachusetts Sermons

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Página 7 - God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...
Página 25 - The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all.
Página 17 - His truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.4 And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
Página 16 - I do tell you, that, in what place soever, by what means soever ; whether by preaching the gospel by a true minister, by a false minister, by no minister, — or by reading, conference, or any other means of publishing it, — two or three faithful people do arise, separating themselves from the world into the fellowship of the gospel, and covenant of Abraham, they are a church, truly gathered, though never so weak...
Página 17 - We covenant with our Lord, and one with another ; and we do bind ourselves in the presence of God, to walk together in all his ways, according as he is pleased to reveal himself unto us in His blessed Word. of Truth...
Página 13 - ... lived that hour within a world That knew not change and death. In vain the pride of ritual art, The pomps of worship, vain; The village meeting-house may shame The incense-breathing fane ! The inward more than outward is, The soul than any shrine; Alone can living love and trust The altar make divine. Long may the ancient meeting-house Rise from the village green, And over all the country round Its belfried tower be seen : Still may the call to praise and prayer He heard each Sunday morn, And...
Página 10 - These churches accept the religion of Jesus, holding, in accordance with his teaching, that practical religion is summed up in love to God and love to man.
Página 23 - ... my experience has taught me to despair of establishing, with any permanency, even a good district school where there is not a good church and an intelligent ministry to watch over and sustain it...
Página 15 - Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

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