A treatise on the government of the Church1813 |
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... objection to the general prevalence of Episcopacy , has arisen from that absurd idea , entertained by its adversaries ever since the Reformation , that it is unfavourable to civil liberty , and that it can only subsist under an absolute ...
... objection to the general prevalence of Episcopacy , has arisen from that absurd idea , entertained by its adversaries ever since the Reformation , that it is unfavourable to civil liberty , and that it can only subsist under an absolute ...
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... objected by some ( not at all to the credit of christianity , ) that the Church of Jerusalem was con- fined to a single congregation . But , it is utterly im- possible , that the many thousands from time to time converted in Jerusalem ...
... objected by some ( not at all to the credit of christianity , ) that the Church of Jerusalem was con- fined to a single congregation . But , it is utterly im- possible , that the many thousands from time to time converted in Jerusalem ...
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... objected , " that the nature of the office of the apostles was such , as to require extraordinary and miraculous endowments for the discharge of many parts of it ; and it is impossible that they can have any successors in those services ...
... objected , " that the nature of the office of the apostles was such , as to require extraordinary and miraculous endowments for the discharge of many parts of it ; and it is impossible that they can have any successors in those services ...
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... objected , that " they were a kind of itine- rant officers , called evangelists , who were assistants to the apostles , " Doddridge's ... objection . Consecration Sermon , 1806 , p . 12 . * " But is not Timothy called an evangelist ? 41.
... objected , that " they were a kind of itine- rant officers , called evangelists , who were assistants to the apostles , " Doddridge's ... objection . Consecration Sermon , 1806 , p . 12 . * " But is not Timothy called an evangelist ? 41.
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... objection to their Episcopacy.- For granting that they did not continually reside , yet it is evident that they were invested with Episcopal power , a right to ordain and exercise those acts of government in the churches to which they ...
... objection to their Episcopacy.- For granting that they did not continually reside , yet it is evident that they were invested with Episcopal power , a right to ordain and exercise those acts of government in the churches to which they ...
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Page 262 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 134 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Page 94 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 97 - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Page 22 - Then saith he unto his disciples, ' The harvest truly is plenteous, but ' the labourers are few ; pray ye therefore the ' Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
Page 119 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 21 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few : pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 137 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears ; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Page 311 - God's word or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen, do most plainly testify : but that only prerogative which we see to have been given always to all godly princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or .temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil doers.
Page 109 - And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.