Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D.R. L. Bryan Company, 1908 - Presbyterian Church |
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... sense of his own congregation , or the presbyters and other official persons , it may be , met as the representatives , each of his own congregation , and all of the church collectively . The former supposition is certainly encumbered ...
... sense of his own congregation , or the presbyters and other official persons , it may be , met as the representatives , each of his own congregation , and all of the church collectively . The former supposition is certainly encumbered ...
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... sense of its danger , and to a full exercise of its powers ; and in thus lifting up a standard against the enemy , when he rushes in like a flood , either in the form of heresy , or error , or cold Laodicean formalism , or in Erastian ...
... sense of its danger , and to a full exercise of its powers ; and in thus lifting up a standard against the enemy , when he rushes in like a flood , either in the form of heresy , or error , or cold Laodicean formalism , or in Erastian ...
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... sense of duty , and they now throw themselves , ( and they are well entitled to it , ) upon your most kind and hearty en- couragement . And how can you encourage them ? You can do this , first , and above all other ways , by constantly ...
... sense of duty , and they now throw themselves , ( and they are well entitled to it , ) upon your most kind and hearty en- couragement . And how can you encourage them ? You can do this , first , and above all other ways , by constantly ...
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... sense here given of the verb translated " labor " has been already noticed , and is referred to in a passage of the Apostoli- cal Constitutions , where it is taught that " to presbyters also , when they labor assiduously in the word and ...
... sense here given of the verb translated " labor " has been already noticed , and is referred to in a passage of the Apostoli- cal Constitutions , where it is taught that " to presbyters also , when they labor assiduously in the word and ...
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... sense in 1 Cor . 4 : 12 , where St. Paul says of himself , " And we labor , working with our own hands . " By laboring , I here understand him to have meant laboring in the Lord or for Christ ; and the sense of the passage appears to me ...
... sense in 1 Cor . 4 : 12 , where St. Paul says of himself , " And we labor , working with our own hands . " By laboring , I here understand him to have meant laboring in the Lord or for Christ ; and the sense of the passage appears to me ...
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Page 608 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 458 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Page 456 - Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Page 39 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 506 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 505 - But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me...
Page 442 - Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone : if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect lo hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 479 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood.
Page 489 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 500 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.