Scriptural View of the Wine-Question
by Moses Stuart
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217045339
Paperback|9780217045339
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and the height of whose honour and happiness it is, to have obtained from heaven a spirit to consecrate himself and his substance to God and to the good of his fellow-men. A thousand blessings on him and you May you both live to see the complete triumph of the cause which you so nobly defend May the blessing of many that were ready to perish, come upon you both Such is the sincere and fervent wish of Your affectionate friend and brother, MOSES STUART. TO THE READER. The discussion as to the nature of wines, and the duly' of the Church in relation to sacramental wine, was commenced in the American Temperance Intelligencer, but that paper being the organ of the New-York State Temperance Society, and that Society being divided in opinion on the subject, it was deemed prudent for peace' sake to discontinue the discussion thereof in so far as sacramental wine was concerned. With a view to furnish a medium for resuming the discus- sion-of this question (how known as the wine question) without implicating the Temperance Society, the Enquirer was established on the individual responsibility of the Editor. Of No. 1, in which the distinction of the kind of wine most proper to be used at the Lord's Supper was commenced, twenty thousand copies were circulated. In No. 2 this discussion was continued. By one class of writers it was contended that mere grape juice as expressed from the cluster was not wine, that all wine was fermented liquor and of course was intoxicating wine, and that the use of such wine was sanctioned by the Bible. By another ilass qf writers it was insisted that the fruit of the vine in the form of grape juice as expressed from the cluster was truly wine, was recognized as such by sacred writers, was presumed to be the wine used at the fi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217045339 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217045332 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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