Chriftian

This he calls chriftian perfedion: and this ftate he fuppofes may be acqui - red in a moment, by. an aft of faith. ❋ Unknown (1791)

Where tithes are prohibited to be fued for in Court - chriftian. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Wherefore fome Tithes were prohibited to be fued for in court chriftian. ❋ Unknown (1797)

The chriftian under the gofpel muft, therefore, be under the fame obligation to love God with all his heart, to be wholly conformed to God (which is* holinefs of heart and life) as he would have been under the law. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

€S SERMON Y. ed the children of God; becaufe, as the child bears the natural image or refemblance of his earthly parents, fo the real chriftian, or child of God, bears the moral or fpiritual image of his lieavenly Father. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

The real chriftian is one, whofe heart is for Godj one who loves God with fupreme affection; who loves God more than the, world and all things in it, more than his own life, yea, more than his own foul. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

It is alTuming the chriftian name and charader, and at - tending to and performing the external duties of religion, from felfifh views and motives, either to gain the efteem of men, or the approbation of God, without any regard to his honor and glory. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

This is very different from the conduBofthe real chriftian. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

This muft be your charader, if you are neither a chriftian, nor an hypocrite. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

After this account of him as a minifter of Chrifl, I will glance upon his carriage as a chriftian. ❋ Bates, William, 1625-1699 (1797)

Plea of mifnomer in the defendant's chriftian name % replication thereto, that defendant is called and knOwa as well by one name as the other. ❋ Unknown (1797)

When the chriftian feels fuch a fpirit and temper as this, it is evident, that he is then conformed to the moral image of God, and a6ls in fome meafure as God does, who prefers and feeks his own glory as the ultimate end of all his condu6l. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

Efpoufes a chriftian piincefs, daughter of Caribert king of Paris, 31. ❋ Unknown (1796)

Though the chriftian faith hath been fixed in fcrip - ture, with a degree of precifion, which fhould have exempted it from corruption, yet how is it varied, diftorted, mangled and adulterated in almoft all national churches! and how much more among them all! ❋ Whatman, James, 1741-1798 (1796)

Notwithflanding thefe fuppofed conveniencies, a proof may be attempted of the following propor - tions. — "That an incorporation deftroys the effen - tial chara6lers of the chriftian church: '* —" It fup - plants the authority of Chrift over her: "— * 'It fpoils her members of their peculiar privileges:" — and ❋ Whatman, James, 1741-1798 (1796)

As the chriftian church ftands related to the Mediatorial character of Chrift, which is wholly fpiritual, Ihe alfo muft be charaderized by the fame property. ❋ Whatman, James, 1741-1798 (1796)

All afFed: to hold it as a firft principle, that perfecution is irreconcil - able with the fpirit and maxims of the chriftian re - ligion. ❋ Whatman, James, 1741-1798 (1796)

Thofe abfurd ceremonies and fuperftitioiis rites, which afibciated with chriftian inftitutions, compofe the incorporated rituals of Europe, are a ftumbHng block to many. ❋ Whatman, James, 1741-1798 (1796)

Befides, this pure, this fublimc cynicifm fecmed to differ fo little fron the original inflitution of the chriftian ❋ Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813 (1796)

They did not attempt to per - fuade the Romans to incorporate the chriftian re - legion with the conftitution of the empire. ❋ Whatman, James, 1741-1798 (1796)