Proceedings of the General Association of Connecticut: Relative to the Rev. Abiel Abbot, Late Pastor of the First Church in Coventry

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Peter B. Gleason and Company, printers, 1812 - 20 páginas
 

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Página 17 - But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ; which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour: that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Página 17 - ... believe in God that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.
Página 9 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
Página 16 - the brightness of" the Father's " glory and the express image of his person ;" and " in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Página 16 - To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Página 16 - These two important doctrines of the Bible have been so defined by a respectable class of Christians, as to appear inconsistent with each other. They hold that the sentence of the law against transgressors, in recompense to them according to their deserts, is their consignment to endless punishment.
Página 9 - That he does neither preach, nor believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ; that he is both God and man united in the person of Mediator. "That he does neither preach nor believe the doctrine of the atonement made...
Página 20 - Resolved, 5. That, according to the firm belief of this General Asso«ciation, a denial of the deity of Jesus Christ is heresy. *• Resolved, 6. That the exclusion from Christian communion, and from the ministerial office, for heresy, is neither an attempt to bind the conscience in matters...
Página 17 - He gave himself for us a sacrifice and an offering, that he might bring us to God." " In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of God's grace.
Página 20 - ... violation of Christian charity; but an act, which that charity imperiously demands; and an article of discipline, which the principles of agreement among the consociated Churches require them to perform. Resolved, 7. That the General Association» view, with much surprise and regret, the coming and the acts of the Council at Coventry, on the 5th day of June, 1811. Resolved 8. That the mere want of " satisfactory evidence, that a Consociation ever existed in Tolland County...

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