The History of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria: From the Foundation of the Colony Down to the Abolition of State Aid in 1875

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Nisbet, 1877 - Australia - 516 pages

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Page 85 - There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God.
Page 514 - For the Father judgeth no man, But hath committed all judgment unto the Son : That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, Honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Page 515 - God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 515 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 485 - The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Page 488 - Scotland, inconsistent with the freedom essential to the right constitution of a Church of Christ, and incompatible with the government which He, as the Head of His Church, hath therein appointed distinct from the civil magistrate.
Page 304 - That, inasmuch as there is a difference of opinion in regard to the doctrines contained in these standards relative to the power and duty of the Civil Magistrate in matters of religion, the office-bearers of this Church, in subscribing these standards and formularies, are not to be held as countenancing any persecuting or intolerant principles, or as professing any views in reference to the power and duty of the Civil Magistrate, inconsistent with the liberty of personal conscience...
Page 230 - God, and agreeable thereto ; and I promise that, through the grace of God, I shall firmly and constantly adhere to the same ; and to the utmost of my power shall in my station assert, maintain, and defend...
Page 516 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Page 515 - And God saw every thing that he had made ; and behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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