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15 unified studies in Practice.
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Ablution
Purification by washing the body, either in whole or part. Ablutions appear to be almost as ancient as external worship itself. This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Adore
To worship; to express reverence and homage. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Anointing
This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Baptism
From the Greek word βαπτίζω, is a rite or ceremony by which persons are initiated into the profession of the Christian religion; or, it is the appointed mode by which a person assumes the profession of Christianity, or is admitted to a par
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Circumcision
_Covenant of_. That the covenant with Abraham, of which circumcision was made the sign and seal, Genesis xvii, 7–14, was the general covenant of grace, and not wholly, or even chiefly, a political and national covenant, may be satisfactori
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Communion
In a religious sense, refers chiefly to the admission of persons to the Lord’s Supper. This is said to be open, when all are admitted who apply, as in the Church of England; This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories witho
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Fast
The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q. v. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Fasting
This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Lord's Supper
(1 Cor. 11:20), called also "the Lord's table" (10:21), "communion," "cup of blessing" (10:16), and "breaking of bread" (Acts 2:42). This unified study connects 2 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Offering
Among the Jews, under the Mosaic law, a variety of offerings of different kinds were appointed, which are accurately and fully described in the beginning of the book of Leviticus. Burnt-offerings, or holocausts, sacrifices in which the vic
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Ordination
The act of conferring holy orders, or of initiating a person into the ministry of the Gospel, by prayer and with or without the laying on of hands. In the church of England, ordination has always been esteemed the principal prerogative of
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Prayer
Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Sacrifice
Properly so called, is the solemn infliction of death on a living creature, generally by the effusion of its blood, in a way of religious worship; and the presenting of this act to God, as a supplication for the pardon of sin, and a suppos
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Tithe
We have nothing more ancient concerning tithes, than what we find in Gen. xiv, 20, that Abraham gave tithes to Melchisedec, king of Salem, at his return from his expedition against Chedorlaomer, and the four kings in confederacy with him.
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Worship
The Scriptural obligation of public worship is partly founded upon example, and partly upon precept; so that no person who admits that authority, can question this great duty without manifest and criminal inconsistency. This unified study