 | Patrick Angier - Christian education of teenagers - 1997 - 132 pages
...confusion, misunderstanding and layered meanings. Traditionally, the Church has been defined as follows: 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... | |
 | Robert Hannaford - Christianity - 1998 - 386 pages
...congenial, although today the occasional polemical note is to be regretted. According to Article Nineteen, 'The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of...Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered'; this is a definition no doubt deficient in terms of what it omits, for example the theology... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 1998 - 418 pages
...Huldrych Zwingli (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986), 266. 5.5 BIBLICAL PREACHING AMONG THE ENGLISH REFORMERS The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of...Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance. — Nineteenth Article of the Thirty-nine Articles By the... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - History - 2000 - 1092 pages
...chap. 1, sec. 2; [1536] 1957, 1:281-82). The Nineteenth Article of Religion ("Of the Church") states: "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of...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... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...the English be accustomed thereto. Gregory I, Epistles, xi, 64, to Augustine of Canterbury (601) 6 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. Book of Common Prayer,... | |
 | Lois G. Schwoerer - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 412 pages
...and differed only on some ceremonies. Invoking article 19 of the Thirty-nine Articles, which read, "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of...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... | |
 | W. A. Jarrel - Religion - 2001 - 522 pages
...until the Second Coming of Christ, Let us first settle what is the church. The ME Discipline defines 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 things that are... | |
 | John Gill - Religion - 2001 - 380 pages
...Christ Jesus, or believers in him : so in the article of the church of England, a church is defined, " A congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered." For only faithful men, or believers in Christ, can... | |
 | John Robert Wright - History - 2001 - 352 pages
...year), as I get to know this flock. As the Prayer Book in the Articles of Religion (number 19) puts it: "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the Word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance."... | |
 | Howard Astin - Church group work - 2002 - 180 pages
...also that each cell is a church. Article 19 of the 39 Articles of Faith of the Anglican Church says, 'The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of...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... | |
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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. 
