Memoirs of Simon Episcopius: ... who was Condemned by the Synod of Dort as a Dangerous Heretic, and ... was Sentenced to Perpetual Banishment by the Civil Authorities of Holland ... To which is Added, a Brief Account of the Synod of DortT. Mason and G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1837 - Nationale synode to Dordrecht - 478 pages |
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... Calvin and Arminius . The prominent part he took in this conflict , with the extraordinary talents he displayed in defence of Arminianism , and the sufferings to which he was exposed in consequence of his attach- ment to it , have given ...
... Calvin and Arminius . The prominent part he took in this conflict , with the extraordinary talents he displayed in defence of Arminianism , and the sufferings to which he was exposed in consequence of his attach- ment to it , have given ...
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... Calvin . But the former were by far the most numerous and successful , and spread their doctrines through the southern provinces , and espe cially in Flanders . The latter chiefly flourished in the eastern provinces . Congregations soon ...
... Calvin . But the former were by far the most numerous and successful , and spread their doctrines through the southern provinces , and espe cially in Flanders . The latter chiefly flourished in the eastern provinces . Congregations soon ...
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... Calvin began to spread more extensively in the Netherlands . Some French ministers , who had embraced the sentiments of this reformer , appeared in the Walloon provinces , where they strenuously held forth and advocated the doctrines of ...
... Calvin began to spread more extensively in the Netherlands . Some French ministers , who had embraced the sentiments of this reformer , appeared in the Walloon provinces , where they strenuously held forth and advocated the doctrines of ...
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... Calvin , at length charg- ing the persons who had received and maintained the doctrine of conditional election , with Pelagianism ; adding , at the same time , that they were not entirely purged from the leaven of Popery . This charge ...
... Calvin , at length charg- ing the persons who had received and maintained the doctrine of conditional election , with Pelagianism ; adding , at the same time , that they were not entirely purged from the leaven of Popery . This charge ...
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... Calvin , * himself belonging to neither , —that the mild doctrines of Melancthon , which are the same as those of the Remonstrants , † had found their way , and widely spread through Holland , long before those of Calvin . This being ...
... Calvin , * himself belonging to neither , —that the mild doctrines of Melancthon , which are the same as those of the Remonstrants , † had found their way , and widely spread through Holland , long before those of Calvin . This being ...
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Page 181 - That I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 56 - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 138 - ... the high and mighty lords, the states general of the United Netherlands...
Page 133 - For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Page 80 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 232 - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day.
Page 57 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 101 - Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Page 172 - As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come 'into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Page 180 - The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners," " Wrath upon the Wicked to the uttermost," " The Future Punishment of the Wicked," and other things of that sort? Nay, can you find a worthy woman, of any considerable culture, who will read the fourteenth chapter of Numbers, and declare that a true picture of the God she worships? Only a she-dragon...