This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... caprice in matters of religion, but they held that they themselves were guilty in the sight of God by remaining in communion with a church which avowed such peruicious doctrines and practices. Since the English Church could not be reformed it must be abandoned. They heard the great voice of the Apocalypse ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... caprice in matters of religion, but they held that they themselves were guilty in the sight of God by remaining in communion with a church which avowed such peruicious doctrines and practices. Since the English Church could not be reformed it must be abandoned. They heard the great voice of the Apocalypse sounding athwart the heavens, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." These were the Puritans of the Puritans, "the dissidents of dissent," who demanded nothing less than the entire freedom of conscience, and a complete separation from all observances opposed to the purity and simplicity of the gospel of Christ. Two ministers of the gospel were hanged for circulating Brown's tract on the Liberty of the Pulpit. "Both the prisoners died by their principles; for though Dr. Still, the archbishop's chaplain, and others travelled (travailed) and conferred with them, yet at the very hour of their death they remained immovable; they were both sound in the doctrinal articles of the Church of England, and of unblemished lives."--Neal, i., 154. With these convictions a handful of " godly Christians" in the north of England, in the village of Scrooby, under the lead of John kobinson and William Brewster, in the year 1606, organized themselves into an independent church after the pattern of the Scriptures. Being led by the light of God's word to see that the "beggarly ceremonies" were monuments of idolatry, and that "the lordly power of the prelates ought not to be submitted to," they determined, to use their own words, "to shake of this yoake of anti-Christian bondage, and as ye Lord's free people joyn themselves by a...
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