• Edward Hiscox's New Directory For Baptist Churches

    8 Unusual Difficulties

    In the maintenance of good order, and the administration of equitable discipline in a Church, there will at times arise cases of unusual difficulty; cases which require more than ordinary wisdom and prudence to manage justly, not to say satisfactorily; not so much, perhaps, because of the gravity of the offense, as because of the persistency of those concerned, the…

  • Robert Hawker's Poor Man's Morning Portions

    March 20—Morning Devotion

    "Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty."—Isaiah 33:17 Who, my soul, but Jesus could be intended by this sweet promise? And who is beautiful and lovely in thine eyes but him? There was no beauty in him while thou wert in a state of unrenewed nature, that thou shouldest desire him; neither can any man truly love him,…

  • Charles Buck's Theological Dictionary

    168 Polytheism

    POLYTHEISM The doctrine of a plurality of gods, or invisible powers superior to man.
"That there exists beings, one or many, powerful above the human race, is a proposition," says lord Kaims, "universally admitted as true in all ages and among all nations. I boldly call it universal, notwithstanding what is reported of some gross savages; for reports that contradict what…