The Claims of the Established Church to Exclusive Attachment and Support: And the Dangers which Menace Her from Schism and Indifference, Considered; in Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford, in the Year MDCCCXX, at the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton |
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... maintaining the internal spirit of religion . II . The authority of the Church in regulating the celebration of divine worship . III . The lawfulness of the course adopted by our own Church ; and the positive benefits derived from her ...
... maintaining the internal spirit of religion . II . The authority of the Church in regulating the celebration of divine worship . III . The lawfulness of the course adopted by our own Church ; and the positive benefits derived from her ...
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... maintain the balance evenly between the opposite ex- tremes ; that the scale of ecclesiastical au- thority is at least as much depressed now , as it was before exalted ; that , exulting in their escape from a " yoke which neither 66 е ...
... maintain the balance evenly between the opposite ex- tremes ; that the scale of ecclesiastical au- thority is at least as much depressed now , as it was before exalted ; that , exulting in their escape from a " yoke which neither 66 е ...
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... maintain its va- lidity would be as it were to assert , that whatever we conceive to be right cannot be wrong ; in short , to supersede the laws of God by the caprices of individual persua- sion . Let it never be forgotten , that , like ...
... maintain its va- lidity would be as it were to assert , that whatever we conceive to be right cannot be wrong ; in short , to supersede the laws of God by the caprices of individual persua- sion . Let it never be forgotten , that , like ...
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... maintain a Church , and instead of tyrannically inflict- ing penalties on the non - conformist , wisely and humanely support and protect him in whatever profession his conscience , well or ill - informed , may have led him to embrace ...
... maintain a Church , and instead of tyrannically inflict- ing penalties on the non - conformist , wisely and humanely support and protect him in whatever profession his conscience , well or ill - informed , may have led him to embrace ...
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... maintaining the necessity of an aposto- lical Episcopacy , and of a divinely instituted priesthood ; -to illustrate the happy , or , to say the least , the unobjectionable course which our Church has adopted in those points which are ...
... maintaining the necessity of an aposto- lical Episcopacy , and of a divinely instituted priesthood ; -to illustrate the happy , or , to say the least , the unobjectionable course which our Church has adopted in those points which are ...
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Page 12 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments [be] duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 324 - 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 states 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 50 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 107 - And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you : as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 12 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page vi - Printing-House, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St.
Page 172 - 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 vii - University, and one copy to the Head of every College, and one copy to the Mayor of the city of Oxford, and one copy to be put into the Bodleian Library ; and the...
Page 220 - Is any sick among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church ; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the LORD : and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Page 210 - But now thy kingdom shall not continue : the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.