Thoughts on the Present State of Popular Opinion in Matters of Religion, in England ...

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C. & J. Rivington, 1824 - 84 páginas
 

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Página 68 - Let the people praise Thee, O GOD : yea, let all the people praise Thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad : for Thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise Thee, O GOD : yea, let all the people praise Thee. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase : and GOD, even our own GOD, shall give us His blessing.
Página 9 - As the godly consideration of predestination and our election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things...
Página 68 - God : yea, let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase : and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us : and all the ends of the world shall fear him.
Página 22 - ... the present purpose, if on coming to particulars we find that the Constitution substantially excludes portions of the faith and doctrine of the Church of England. The trusts of the property in dispute are declared by the Ordinance of 1839, and the grant of June 1849 in favour of persons belonging to the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established.
Página 4 - no man even yet taketh this honour (of the priesthood) unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
Página 77 - Berens, containing as they do sentiments with which the tone of his pastoral services is in strict accord76 ance, will doubtless be somewhat surprised to hear that the Parish just mentioned, of which he is the resident Vicar, is a place selected from its darkness for the evangelizing labours of this Society. Behold, then, the account sent from thence !
Página 34 - Lord's table," the most infamous sinner in the parish, if he should be refused, may appeal to the Ecclesiastical Court ; and if he can secure the favour of the Chancellor, he may demand admission, and defy the minister, and even the Bishop himself, to exclude him.
Página 77 - Now of this Parish of Shrivenham I will venture without hesitation to say, that if there be one in which the public Offices of the Church, Visitation of the Sick, Catechizing, visiting from house to house, and other acts, whether of prescribed duty or of spontaneous pastoral kindness, are, in a more than...
Página 76 - In the immediate neighbourhood of Highworth, there is one other case which I cannot leave unnoticed. It is that of the Parish of Shrivenham, Berks. Whoever has read the Village Sermons, and other publications of the same nature from the pen of Mr. Berens, containing as they do sentiments with which the tone of his pastoral services is in strict...
Página 77 - the " storms of opposition are now stilled ; we go for" ward peaceably ; the people are very attentive ; " but I know not whether the word has been blessed " to any soul. It requires much patience, after we " have sown the seed, to water it, and to wait for the

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