 Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly...  The Creeds of Christendom: With a History and Critical Notes, Vol III - Page 485by Philip Schaff - 1877Full view - About this book
 | James Behrens - Confirmation - 1995 - 138 pages
...Matrimony and extreme Unction are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly...have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God Similarly, in the catechism the candidate is asked how many sacraments Christ ordained in his church.... | |
 | Nick Whitehead, Hazel Whitehead - Religion - 1998 - 132 pages
...Matrimony, and Extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures.' The sacrament of baptism For the purposes of this book, it is enough to know that baptism has been... | |
 | Rhidian Jones - Religion - 2000 - 188 pages
...consecrated elements. Furthermore, articles 25 and 28 of the Thirty-Nine Articles state respectively: 'The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be...carried about, but that we should duly use them' and The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up,... | |
 | Charles P. Price Louis Weil - Liturgics - 1979 - 260 pages
...[which] are not to be counted as Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly out of a corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures . . ." (Article xxv). Professor Marion Hatchett has argued persuasively that in the 1552 Prayer Book... | |
 | J. I. Packer - Religion - 2001 - 290 pages
...and extreme unction). In addition to their not being seals of a covenant relationship with God, they "have not like nature of sacraments with Baptism and...not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God" (Thirty-Nine Articles XXV). The sacraments are rightly viewed as means of grace, for God makes them... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - England - 2004 - 682 pages
...not to be accounted sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have partly grown from corrupt imitation of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed...not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God, together with a promise of saving grace annexed thereunto. 88. The sacraments were not ordained of... | |
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