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Parting Counsels: an Exposition of the First Chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter

John Brown of Edinburgh

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Secession (Associate, United Secession, United Presbyterian) divines held the Westminster Standards with the Secession declaration on the civil magistrate (voluntaryism), which differs from WCF 23 (1647) and from the Free Church establishment principle. Kept as primary-text for exegesis; the civil-magistrate...

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1856. Public domain

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