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Title: The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statistics. With a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Belcher, Joseph, 1794-1859
Subjects: Sects Sects Religions
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d pie-server of all things, visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead,there are three persons of one substance, power, and eternity;—theFather, the Son, and Holy Ghost. II. Of the Word, or Son of God, who was made very Man. The Son, who is the Word of the Father, the very and eternalGod, of one substance with the Father, took mans nature in the wombof the blessed virgin; so that two whole and perfect natures, that is tosay, the Godhead and manhood were joined together in one person,never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God and very man,who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile hisFather to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but alsofor actual sins of men. III. Of the Resurrection of Christ. Christ did truly rise again from the dead, and took again his body,with all things appertaining to the perfection of mans nature, where-with he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth until he return to judgeall men at the last day.
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507 Methodist Episcopal Church. 569 IV. Of the Holy Ghost.The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is ofone substance, majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son, veryand eternal God. V. The sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation.The holy Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation : sothat whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is notto be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article offaith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the nameof the holy Scripture, we do understand those canonical books of theOld and new Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt inthe church. The names of the Canonical Books. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua,Judges, Ruth, the First Book of Samuel, the Second Book of Samuel,the First Book of Kings, the Second Book of Kings, the First Book ofChronicles, the Second Book of Chronicles, the Book of Ezra, theBook of Nehemiah, the Book of E

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