The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen, Volúmenes 1-4

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W. S. Marsh, 1816

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The advantageous situation of the clergy strangely inconsistent with their common cry of danger
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The enmity of the highclergy to the reformation and their arts to defeat the end of
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The church proved a creature of the civil power by acts of parliament and the oaths of the clergy
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The clergy proved to be creatures of the civil pow er by the canons and their own publick acts
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The absurdity and impossibility of churchpower as independent on the state PAGE iii XV 1 4 6 9 11 14 17 20 23 30 33 36 227 8 8 8 8 8 5
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of highchurch with some advice to the clergy XVII Reasons why the highchurch are the most wick XVI The inconsistency of the principles and pract...
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ed of all men
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A general idea of priestcraft
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Ecclesiastical authority as claimed by the high clergy an enemy to religion
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Queries concerning authority in matters of faith
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A letter to a clergyman shewing the impossibility of asee senting to what we do not understaud
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Of chaplains
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A comparison between the highchurch and the Quakers
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Priestcraft corrupts every thing and perverts the use of words
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Of zeal
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Of persecution
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Of consecration
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Of faith and morality
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Of fasting
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Of Blasphemy
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Of authority
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Of education
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Of education Part 2
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Of Ceremonies
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Of ceremonies Part 2
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The ignorance of the highchurch vulgar and its causes
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Of fasting Part 2
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Of reason
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Of the peace of the church
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The enmity of the highclergy to the bible
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Of penance and religious revellings
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With the equity of uni versal toleration and of judging for ourselves
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Página 182 - I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Página 182 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink : : I was a stranger, and ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not : sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Página 137 - Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name : I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them : they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Página 192 - And the whole city was filled with confusion : and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.
Página 165 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation : 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
Página 181 - There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Página 165 - But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. . . . And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ...
Página 180 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Página 164 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Página 180 - Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

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