The Old in the New: Or, The Position and Policy of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; a Discourse, Delivered at the Opening of the General Assembly, in St. Louis, May 17, 1855,Michigan Publishing, 1855 - 30페이지 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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12 페이지 - Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
12 페이지 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
5 페이지 - Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
18 페이지 - Let new light be derided whilst men please, he will never serve the will of God in this generation, who sees not beyond the line of foregoing ages.
13 페이지 - Athenians and strangers which were there,' how many would apparently be glad, to ' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or hear something newer.
13 페이지 - ... sense, more serious too than were our fathers, and in which refinement and discretion have done so much for us — has touched, not our creeds indeed, so as to remove any one article from them, but it has touched the depths of our convictions as to the whole, and as to several points of our belief. There is little, perhaps, in the cycle of our predecessors' confession of faith which, if challenged to relinquish it, we should consent to see erased.
27 페이지 - How solemn the assembly, in which seventeen hundred churches are to consult and act together, in the name of Christ, and for the cause of Christ, the cause for which he died on the cross, arose from the dead, ascended the throne of the world, and administers the government of God! How great, how sublime, the representative activity, in which we are to be engaged, as the delegates and organs of these churches ! In virtue of his own wisdom or holiness, which of us is sufficient for the part he has...
8 페이지 - A lively preference of our order, a high appreciation of its specific advantages, has developed itself amongst us, under circumstances specially suited to foster and extend it. Possibly, we are in some danger from a too active, too impulsive denominationalism. We are, at least, not without temptations to excess. Is it not wise to look to ourselves, lest the perils with which we are threatened come upon us ? How desirable that our...
13 페이지 - now fill one side of a balance sheet, on the other side of which there stands a heavy charge which has not yet been ascertained or agreed to. If this alleged state of the case' be resented — as it will, by some — it will be tacitly assented to by the more thoughtful and ingenuous reader.
13 페이지 - ... confession of faith which, if challenged to relinquish it, we should consent to see erased. But, whether we be distinctly conscious of the fact or not, there has come to stand over against each article of that belief a counterbalance — an influence of abatement, an unadjusted surmise, an adverse feeling, neither assented to nor dismissed, but which holds the mind in perpetual suspense. The creed of this time is — let us say — word for word the creed of sixty years ago ; but, if such a simile...