The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England Explained...Methuen & Company, 1908 - 800 pages |
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... never varied in her expression of them . The formularies of faith belonging to the sixteenth century are of a very different character . Instead of the crisp , short summaries of the main articles of Christian belief , drawn up in the ...
... never varied in her expression of them . The formularies of faith belonging to the sixteenth century are of a very different character . Instead of the crisp , short summaries of the main articles of Christian belief , drawn up in the ...
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... never published nor in any way imposed upon the Church . While the works just considered enable us to see something of the practical system which our reformers had before them , and with which they were called upon to deal , yet it must ...
... never published nor in any way imposed upon the Church . While the works just considered enable us to see something of the practical system which our reformers had before them , and with which they were called upon to deal , yet it must ...
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... never heard of this Catechism . " In his reply to this , Cranmer dis- claimed all responsibility for the title . " I was ignorant of the setting to of that title , and , as soon as I had knowledge thereof , I did not like it ; therefore ...
... never heard of this Catechism . " In his reply to this , Cranmer dis- claimed all responsibility for the title . " I was ignorant of the setting to of that title , and , as soon as I had knowledge thereof , I did not like it ; therefore ...
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... never deny , as we might have expected them to do , that the Catechism claimed synodal authority . The only possible explana- tion of this appears to be , that the whole book , contain- ing the Articles as well as the Catechism , was ...
... never deny , as we might have expected them to do , that the Catechism claimed synodal authority . The only possible explana- tion of this appears to be , that the whole book , contain- ing the Articles as well as the Catechism , was ...
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... never meant to form a complete system of theology , but were merely intended to treat of such points as were actually in dispute at the time . The title prefixed to the English edition speaks of them as agreed upon , " for the avoiding ...
... never meant to form a complete system of theology , but were merely intended to treat of such points as were actually in dispute at the time . The title prefixed to the English edition speaks of them as agreed upon , " for the avoiding ...
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Page 147 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 638 - THE Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another ; but rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death : insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith, receive the same, the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ ; and likewise the Cup of blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ.
Page 212 - Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive ; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given ; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
Page 620 - Christian life: remembering always, that baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour CHRIST, and to be made like unto him; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Page 479 - Wherefore they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to God's purpose by His Spirit working in due season ; they through grace obey the calling...
Page 503 - When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus ; and when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them, and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Page 379 - THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God : Wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 471 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 40 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is Faith.
Page 290 - And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.