 | Stephen Ward Angell - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 356 pages
...church beliefs in his theology. He defined the church as Luther and Calvin would have defined it, as "a congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached and the sacraments duly administered."74 Preaching was more important than the sacraments... | |
 | Aidan Nichols - Religion - 1993 - 212 pages
...Their ecclesiology saw the Church as, in the words of article nineteen of the Thirty Nine Articles, 'a congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached'. Similarly, the apostolic ministry was re-defined as a ministry of evangelical proclamation.... | |
 | Michael Watts - Religion - 1993 - 212 pages
...declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.' Article XIX, after defining the Church of Christ as 'a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments ... duly ministered', defines the mode of that ministration as 'according... | |
 | G. R. Evans - Religion - 2002 - 352 pages
...in the sixteenth century by the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England: 'The visible Church 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 in all those things which are requisite to the same' (XIX).... | |
 | Nigel Scotland - Religion - 1995 - 222 pages
...local congregation with mystical body of Christ, Sumner was adamant in the words of Article 19 that the visible Church of Christ is a congregation of...word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance' . 40 He underlined the work of the Reformers which divested... | |
 | Margo Todd - History - 1995 - 300 pages
...the true church. The Thirty-nine Articles, which on this point follow Calvin exactly, set out that 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 ministered according to Christ's... | |
 | David Cressy, Lori Anne Ferrell - History - 1996 - 228 pages
...expressly declared unto us in the word of God. 18 Of obtaining eternal salvation only by the name of Christ They also are to be had accursed that presume to say,...church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's... | |
 | Ethelbert W. Bullinger - Religion - 1996 - 150 pages
...given building or room, as the Church of England defines it (in the Nineteenth Article of Religion), "a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure...Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered." 4. It is used of the building in which such a congregation meets for worship. 5. It... | |
 | Paul F. M. Zahl - Religion - 1998 - 128 pages
...Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved. XIX. Of the Church. The visible Church of Christ is a congregation...Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to... | |
 | Susanna Wesley - Religion - 1997 - 529 pages
...followed by the crossed-out "under." 216. In MS C: "their." 217. See BCP, Articles of Religion, XIX. Of the Church: "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 ministered according to Christ's... | |
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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 be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same. 
