The Religious Creeds and Statistics of Every Christian Denomination in the United States and British Provinces: With Some Account of the Religious Sentiments of the Jews, American Indians, Deists, Mahometans, &c., Alphabetically Arranged

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J. Hayward, 1836 - 156 páginas
 

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Página 116 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts ; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
Página 7 - a man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 60 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the supper, only after a heavenly and scriptural manner. And the means whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the supper, is faith. Transubstantiation, or the change of the substance of bread and wine in the supper of
Página 58 - 9. We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or descrvings. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith, only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.
Página 105 - faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptism and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." As these two verses contain six distinct propositions, one of which is the laying on of hands, these brethren have from thence acquired the name of
Página 60 - sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death ; insomuch, that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the 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.
Página 92 - Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation, that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ He, therefore, that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity. Now the right faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and Man.
Página 93 - consubstantialem Patri; per quern omnia facta sunt. Qui propter nos homines, et propter nostram salutem, descendit de cœlis. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine ; ET HOMO FACTUS EST : crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Filato, passus, et sepultus est. Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas. Et ascendit in cœlum,
Página 40 - Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, To be, contents his natural desire, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire
Página 59 - Sacraments ordained of Christ, are not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession: but rather they are certain signs of grace, and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth •work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen

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