 | William James Early BENNETT - 1837 - 458 pages
...not narrow the entrance into the kingdom of * Our articles say that "the visible church of Christ, is a congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached and the sacraments duly administered." But this visible church, according to Pearson, (see... | |
 | Ecclesiastical courts - 1838 - 178 pages
...an accurate and comprehensive definition of the term Church. — " The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance." To which I subjoin... | |
 | John Dick - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 588 pages
...uncovenanled mercy of God. But "we have not so learned Christ." We acknowledge as a part of the church " every congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments are duly administered." The third character of the church is its perpetuity.... | |
 | 1842 - 268 pages
...or conventicle, and not to a Church. Her Majesty shows that she has not so learned to think of any ' congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, ' and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on his part, avouches... | |
 | Robert Wilson Evans - 1839 - 390 pages
...These shall now be considered. The 19th Article of our Church defines the visible Church of Christ to be, " A congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 382 pages
...it is the church of God in the midst of the wilderness of the world. "The visible church of God is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance in all those things... | |
 | Great Britain - 1840 - 452 pages
...definition of the nineteenth Article of the Church, above referred to, — " The visible Church is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things... | |
 | Methodist Protestant Church - 1839 - 196 pages
...place of forgiveness to such a* truly repent. XIII. Of the Church. The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things... | |
 | John Burnett Pratt - 1840 - 312 pages
...will of God, and teaching them how to honour Him in all things. " The visible Church of Christ, is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached c ." If the Divine instruction were withheld, mortals could not discover how to make this... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1840 - 756 pages
...of the soul with its Creator," was nearly superseded by an intervention of "the Church" — not as a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments are "duly administered according to Christ's ordinance," as the Church... | |
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The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same. 
