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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)
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Subjects: Christian sects Christianity
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : John Winebrenner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ious opinions of the Men-nonites. The name Amish or Ornish was derivedfrom Jacob Amen, a native of Amenthal,in Switzerland, and a rigid Mennonitepreacher of the seventeenth century; butthat he was not the founder of a sect willbe evident from the fact, that the societywho are in the United States wrongfullycalled Amish or Ornish, still rigidly adhereto the Confession of Faith which wasadopted at Dortrecht, in Holland, A. D.1632, (before the time of Jacob Amen,)by a General Assembly of ministers ofthe religious denomination who were atthat time and in that place called Mennon-ites, (after Menno Simon, an eminentpreacher and native of Friesland, in Hol-land,) but who were, (as has been wellestablished by writers of the seventeenthcentury,) prior to that time, at differentperiods, known by the names of Henri-cians, Petrobrusians, and Waldenses. Thenumber of the milder Mennonites in theUnited States is computed at 120,000,while that of the rigid Mennonites is notsupposed to exceed 5000. J
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Pliilail! <£J@3HIW OA3L^nHTo HISTORY OF THE PRESBVTERI \.\ CHTROH. HISTORY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BY JOHN M. KREBS, D.D. PASTOR OF THE RUTGERS STREET CHURCH, NEW YORK, AND TERMANENT CLERK OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. I. DOCTRINE, WORSHIP, AND GOVERN-MENT. The published Constitution of thePresbyterian Church in the United Statesof America, sets forth at large the systemof doctrine, mode of worship, and formof government, adopted by this church. The Doctrines are contained in the Confession of Faith, and in the Largerand Shorter Catechisms, and are thosewhich are popularly denominated Cal-vinistic. This distinctive title is appro-priated to this system, not because Calvininvented it, but because, among all themodern advocates of it, he was undoubt-edly the most profound and able, and be-cause it has suited the policy of some toendeavor to convey the idea that thissystem was unknown until Calvin beganto propagate and defend it. In the Confession of Faith there aremany doctrines in wh

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