Hence he readily avails himself of every means which he fancies capable of alleviating his anxieties, and in his eagerness to escape the wretchedness of apprehension or the suffering of evil, flies to unscriptural resources.
The ordinance of marriage has been disfigured by the evil and unscriptural laws of the Papacy, and it were well that the whole matter be carefully thought over and some simple rules laid down agreeable to the Word of God.
The Anabaptists were for the most part good workmen, and patient and provident cultivators of the soil, ready to pay all dues but the unscriptural war-tax.
Surely its derivatives and compounds are found therein; nor is it any more unscriptural than the songs of Arius written in his book 'Thalia.
It is unscriptural to expect now in this time such a latter rain, just as it is unscriptural to expect now the rain upon the land of Israel.
It is only in the perversity of unscriptural theology that we find the absurdity of separating the moral character from the substance of the soul, and tying it to the vanishing deeds of life.
While we welcome this reasoning as showing how God has overruled evil for good, we regard the explanation as unscriptural and unsatisfactory, for the reason that it takes no account of the ethics of natural law.
Would it be disagreeable to those who love the unity of Saints, or improbable or unscriptural to expect such a prophet to be possessed with the key of knowledge, or endowed, like Peter, with the stone of revelation?
Stories of death-bed repentance and dreams, used to decorate unscriptural doctrines.
Any persons or teachings in conflict with these boastful, unscriptural claims will be branded as everything vile, at the mouths of the frogs, croaking from pulpits and platforms, and through the religious and secular press.
It has, however, been associated with a most unscriptural fancy.
The remaining allegations relate to outward ceremonies which these individuals regarded as unscriptural and even idolatrous; and the observance of which, by them, must therefore have been an abomination to the Searcher of hearts.
But, like the puritans in general, he was, no doubt, deeply impressed with the unscriptural character of popery, and with the mischievous tendency of cherishing any remnant of its idolatrous abominations.
Consider the difficulties your missionaries already have to encounter, because of unscriptural sentiments propagated among the heathen by those who nevertheless loved their souls.
Some of the words and phrases that are more frequently used by Christians than any other, are unscriptural ones.
Inability to accept unauthorized definitions and unscriptural theories of Scriptural doctrines, was construed into a denial of those doctrines.
While unscriptural doctrines were inculcated as fundamental doctrines of the Gospel, some of the fundamental doctrines themselves were not only neglected, but denounced as grievous heresies.
His sermon on God's approbation of His works,--unscriptural and unphilosophical throughout.
And almost all had unauthorized and unscriptural theories of Scripture inspiration, which it was impossible for them to prove, and which they so manifestly failed to prove, that a critical reader could not but see their failure.
A difference of expression between me and my brethren was mistaken for a difference of belief; and the disuse of an unscriptural word, was mistaken for a renunciation of a Christian doctrine.
Then followed a lot of unscriptural and unwise talk about our own righteousness and Christ's righteousness.
Yet we are told that only the ingenuity of heretics has obliged Trinitarians to have recourse to unscriptural language.
The unscriptural Origin and Ecclesiastical History of the Doctrine of the Trinity.
That considerable numbers, it is apprehended, especially among the middling and lower classes, who outwardly profess Unitarian principles, are in total ignorance of the unscriptural nature and dangerous character of those principles.
My subject is entitled “The unscriptural Origin and Ecclesiastical History of the Doctrine of the Trinity.
If there is a dissenting brother, after the reasons of the dissent have been stated, and judged unscriptural by the church, he is expelled.
In proportion as its clergy asserted their claims, other changes of an unscriptural character were made.
Their pious labors we still have in the forms of Bodies of Divinity and Confessions of Faith, in both which the unscriptural and antiscriptural dogmas and heresies of Rome are condemned and solidly confuted by the Scriptures.
How directly contrary to all this is the unscriptural idea, not only of entire sanctification, but of instantaneous sanctification.
We have further shown, that the modern revival system isunscriptural and positively injurious in its consequences, and therefore cannot be regarded or adopted as a part of God's Way of Salvation.
Ask them who needs it, how it is brought about, and what are the evidences of its existence; and they give at best very confused and unscriptural answers.
That this is an unscriptural idea we have shown elsewhere.
The Bible names given to the church and to the followers of Christ, express true ideas and relationships; while the human names since added express false and unscriptural ideas and relationships.
Any name used to designate a part of the followers of Christ and to separate them from the rest, is wrong, because it expresses a wrong and unscriptural idea.
Melancthon, whilst he by no means indulges in the extravagant and unscriptural views of a change in the water employed in baptism, by the Deity's pervading it, &c.
In the American Lutheran Church, it was never received by the fathers of our church, and is regarded as unscriptural and highly objectionable, under the most favorable interpretation that can be given it.
Why not confess with contrition your unscriptural teachings and practices?
Now the Apostle James has given us a test which will utterly confound all such unscriptural arguments, viz.
I furthermore perceived there were additional objections to theirunscriptural views, which continued to be presented to my mind.
This clearly overthrows your unscriptural arguments to establish the first day of the week for the seventh-day Sabbath.
But the unscriptural view of everlasting conscious torment that never reaches the point of full punishment, is unthinkable.
It would have been a triumphant answer could they have shown that it was an unscriptural practice, not countenanced by Christ or the apostles.
Rightly understood, therefore, they are free from any just imputation of making unscriptural terms of membership in the kingdom of Christ.
It is more than we can believe that Protestant denominations should all, with one exception, adhere to an unscriptural practice, at the present day especially.
