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. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...the peculiar and lovely spirit of their Master. "By this," he had said " shall all men " know that ye are my disciples, if ye love " one another;" and, in all their writings, they exhibited this distinguishing principle of Christianity then new to the heathen world, as connected with religion, and having its ...
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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. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...the peculiar and lovely spirit of their Master. "By this," he had said " shall all men " know that ye are my disciples, if ye love " one another;" and, in all their writings, they exhibited this distinguishing principle of Christianity then new to the heathen world, as connected with religion, and having its root in the faith of the Gospel. 3.--These actively benevolent men did not rest satisfied with exhortations to charity, however sincere and fervent, or with enforcing upon the converts to Christianity their obligations to obey the command of Christ. They followed out the spirit of their master's instructions by forming, in the rising church, institutions for the relief of the poor and of the diseased, of the infirm and of the aged. After the ascension of Jesus, and the effusion of the holy spirit, when the numbers who embraced the faith of Christ and joined themselves to the Apostles were formed into a regular society, one of their first 1. John 3. 17. Q objects was to make a provision for supplying the wants of the destitute sick and infirm amongst themselves. From the day of Pentecost, when three thousand were converted by the preaching of Peter, the caie of the poor became matter of daily consideration with the rulers of the church, and for this purpose very liberal contributions were made. " All that believed were together, " and had all things common; and sold their " possessions and goods, and parted them to all " men as every man had need.5' It is not meant that there was an entire community of goods amongst the primitive Christians, or that those who were received into their society were obliged to throw all their substance into a common stock. When Ananias and Sapphira, two persons who had joined the Christian church, sold a...
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