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John Winebrenner

(Winebrenner, John, 1797-1860)

$Identifier: historyallreli00harr (find matches) Title: History of all the religious denominations in the United States : containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions .. Year: 1849 (1840s) Authors: Subjects: Christian sects Christianity Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : John Winebrenner Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: theHoly Ghost hath made you overseers, to feedthe church of God, which he hath purchasedwith his own blood. * Matt. xvi. 18. And I say also to thee,That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I willbuild my church; and the gates of hell shallnot prevail asrainst it. f Mark i. 14-20. Now, after that John wasput in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preach-ing the gospel of the kingdom of God, &c. t Matt, xxviii. 19. Go ye, therefore, andteach all nations, baptizing them in the nameof the Father, and of the Son, and of the HolyGhost; 20. Teaching them to observe all thingswhatsoever I have commanded you: and, Jo,I am with you always, even to the end of theworld. Amen. Mark xvi. 15. And he said to them, Goye into all the world and preach the gospel toevery creature. 16. He that believeth and is baptized shallbe saved; but he that believeth not shall bedamned. Acts ii. 4. And they were all filled with theHoly Ghost, and began to speak with othertongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. % Text Appearing After Image: Lith of PS Lival.Ph So W1II11! E1MI1, Ill.viOKV OF THE (HI KUI OF GOD. L71 earn on this building of God1—thii PfeiJem from above, \\ bicb ia 11 i«- mother of us all.f Ami we may add, thit, hisown church or temple, be will continue tobuild and prosper, despite of all her ad«reraariea ; and ultimate!! , cooaummate ln>purposea, by bringing forth the head stonesthereof with loud acclamatiom and shout-ings of grace, grace to it.:£ It is nothing uncommon, among theolo-gical writers, to trace the origin of theChurch of God to Abraham, the Fatherof the Faithful, with whom God made acovenant nineteen hundred years beforethe birth of Christ. We, however, dis-sent from this view of the origin of thechurch, We believe that the Abrahamic orJewish Church was not the same church,called in the New Testament the Churchof God. If the same, Christ would nothave said to Peter, Upon this rock willI bmld my Church ;§ and the Apostlewould never have said, He (Christ) hathmade both one, and hath bro Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.$
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