Quotes by Robert Rainy - Page 1

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
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Advent
Claims
Embody
Frequent
New Religion
Occurrence
Revelation
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Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
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Hierarchy
Holy
Holy Spirit
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Meanwhile
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The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
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Presidency
Worship
Earlier
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More Or Less
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And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
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Persons
Christians
Neither
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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
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Christian
Customs
Profession
Reconcile
Actions
Christians
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Occupations
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The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
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Forgiveness
Consistency
Novelty
Strict
Testimony
Applied
Churches
However
Principle
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Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
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Awakening
Christian Church
Nations
Religious
Territory
Connection
Differ
Forming
Planted
Professing
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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
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Careful
Celibacy
Christian
Christian Life
Fasting
Great Value
Higher
Manners
Separation
Life Great World
Marriages
Standard
Prohibited
Required
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