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8 quotes by Robert Rainy

This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2012) Robert Rainy. Robert Rainy (1 January 1826 – 22 December 1906), was a Scottish Presbyterian divine; his father, Dr Harry Rainy, Professor of Forensic Medicine in the University of Glasgow, was the son of a Sutherland...
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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and... →

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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

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The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in... →

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And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very... →

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Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with... →

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Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the... →

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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs... →

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The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the... →

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