A History of American ChristianityCharles Scribner Sons, 1897 - 429 páginas |
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American Church History antislavery Assembly Awakening Baptist beginning Bishop Boston Calvinistic Catholic Church century Christ Christendom Christian Church of England civil clergy College colonists colony common communion Company Congregationalists congregations Connecticut continued coöperation denominations divine doctrine Dutch duty early earnest ecclesiastical Encyclopædia Britannica English enterprise Episcopal Church Episcopalians established evangelization faith fellowship French German gospel governor honorable Horace Bushnell hundred immigration important Indians influence institutions Jesuit Jonathan Edwards kingdom labors land liberty Lord Lutheran Lyman Beecher Maryland ment Methodist ministers ministry missionaries missions moral Moravian mutual organization parish party pastor Pennsylvania period persecution Philadelphia political population preachers preaching Presbyterian Church principles Protestant Puritan Quaker Reformed religion religious revival Roman Catholic Church schism Scrooby sectarian sects seemed Seminary Separatists sermon settlement slavery Society South southern Spanish spiritual strong synod theology tion Unitarian United Virginia whole worship York zeal
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Página 402 - In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.
Página 316 - A multitude like which the populous North Poured never from her frozen loins to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Página 157 - The goings of God were then seen in his sanctuary, God's day was a delight, and his tabernacles were amiable. Our public assemblies were then beautiful; the congregation was alive in God's service, every one earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to drink in the words of the minister as they came from his mouth...
Página 94 - It is as far as I can gather, no other than is warranted by the evidence of truth. And the same which I have professed, and maintained, ever since the Lord in mercy revealed Himself unto me. Being far from the common report that hath been spread of you touching that particular...
Página 250 - All the literary men of Massachusetts were Unitarian. All the trustees and professors of Harvard College were Unitarians. All the elite of wealth and fashion crowded Unitarian churches. The judges on the bench were Unitarian, giving decisions by which the peculiar features of church organization, so carefully ordained by the Pilgrim fathers, had been nullified.
Página 269 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth...
Página 205 - Conference acknowledge that slavery is contrary to the laws of God, man, and nature, and hurtful to society; contrary to the dictates of conscience and pure religion, and doing that which we would not others should do to us and ours? Do we pass our disapprobation on all our friends who keep slaves, and advise their freedom?
Página 111 - Wasse ; there we lay a foundation for after ages to understand their liberty as men and Christians, that they may not be brought in bondage, but by their own consent ; for we put the power in the people...
Página 116 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 52 - 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"!