The Affairs of Rhode-Island: A Discourse Delivered in the Meeting-house of the First Baptist Church, Providence, May 22, 1842B. Cranston & Company and H.H. Brown, 1842 - 32 pages |
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The Affairs of Rhode-Island: A Discourse Delivered in the Meeting-House of ... Francis Wayland, Jr. No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 29 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 28 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...
Page 28 - Let every soul be subject to the higher powers ; for there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God.
Page 10 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Page 29 - God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Page 32 - Assembly as they shall think fit; and to choose, nominate and appoint such and so many other persons as they shall think fit, and shall be willing to accept the same, to be free of the said company and body politic, and them into the same to admit...
Page 7 - ... no constitution in the land is worth the parchment on which it is written. The only law that would be known, would soon be the law of force. The only principle of action would come to be the love of plunder. All that would be necessary, in order to establish unlimited power over us, would be, without...
Page 3 - Resolved, That the thanks of the Society, be presented to the Hon. SA Douglass, for his eloquent and practical address, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of the same for publication in the Transactions of the Society.
Page 23 - Love must be our regulating ideal. Once again we must hear the words of Jesus echoing across the centuries: 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you.
Page 32 - God, and he will be a wall of fire round about us, and the glory in the midst of us in this present, and all succeeding generations.