Category: Religion/Spirituality

The Essential Faith of the Universal Church; Deduced from the Sacred Records

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Chapters

2. Part 2

That the doctrine of the pre-existence of Christ must have been new and strange to the faithful teachers of the church we know, not only from their own intimation that it was so...

6. Part 6

One of these principles, whose claim to admission is seldom unequivocally denied in theory, though too often practically disallowed, is Christian Liberty,--the indefeasible righ...

5. Part 5

The fundamental truths of Morals are eternal as He to whom they primarily relate, and immutable as the purposes which they subserve. But it is necessary that they should be comm...

3. Part 3

According to these sayings, the Apostles made their requests for the more abundant effusions of grace in the name of Christ; but, believing that the Father himself loved them, t...

8. Part 8

From the essential principles of the Gospel we derive our belief that Christianity, is not designed for any union, permanent or temporary, with worldly power and grandeur; that...

1. Part 1

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9. Part 9

As we believe ourselves included in the universal Church, _i. e._ in the number of Christian believers, we acknowledge no authority but that which thus included us,--the authori...

7. Part 7

But, being convinced, for reasons given before, that the possession of the true faith is not an indispensable requisite for future happiness, and that the non-possession of it i...

4. Part 4

Yet there were many among the people of Israel who were blind to this glory, and many of the Gentiles who rejected this guiding light. This rejection was not caused by any restr...