Letters on the Ministry, Ritual and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Addressed to the Rev. Wm. E. Wyatt in Reply to a SermonN.G. Maxwell, 1820 - 268 pages |
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... Saviour gave no instruc- tions respecting any particular mode of church government- Said nothing of three orders of ministry - The first church at Jerusalem was governed by the apostles , elders , and brethren- Deacons The ceremony of ...
... Saviour gave no instruc- tions respecting any particular mode of church government- Said nothing of three orders of ministry - The first church at Jerusalem was governed by the apostles , elders , and brethren- Deacons The ceremony of ...
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... Saviour , has been rather a dishonor to his name , than a means of procuring spiritual comfort , and the rewards of obedience for his followers . These , you will allow , are serious considerations , not only to ministers , but to the ...
... Saviour , has been rather a dishonor to his name , than a means of procuring spiritual comfort , and the rewards of obedience for his followers . These , you will allow , are serious considerations , not only to ministers , but to the ...
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... Saviour , the apostles , and the seventy , who were sent forth to preach . Now , is it not a little remark- able , if Jesus intended the ministry of his church to consist of three orders , and to be transmitted in 11.
... Saviour , the apostles , and the seventy , who were sent forth to preach . Now , is it not a little remark- able , if Jesus intended the ministry of his church to consist of three orders , and to be transmitted in 11.
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... Saviour left no instructions respect- ing any particular form of church government . We have no other scripture authority on this subject , than what we derive from the writings and example of the apostles after the resurrection of ...
... Saviour left no instructions respect- ing any particular form of church government . We have no other scripture authority on this subject , than what we derive from the writings and example of the apostles after the resurrection of ...
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... Saviour taught , and the apostles are said to have practised , will be good authority . This is the only authority on which we can with safety rely , notwith- standing what may have been the " faith of the uni- versal church , without ...
... Saviour taught , and the apostles are said to have practised , will be good authority . This is the only authority on which we can with safety rely , notwith- standing what may have been the " faith of the uni- versal church , without ...
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Page 90 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess, That our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man ; God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds ; and Man of the substance of his mother, born in the world ; perfect God, and perfect man, of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Fattier, as touching his Godhead ; and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood.
Page 118 - As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the Works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their minds to high and heavenly things...
Page 90 - And in this Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another ; But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together, and co-equal.
Page 58 - BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be.
Page 141 - The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart ; that is, the word of faith which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Page 113 - 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 235 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.
Page 64 - RECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 89 - And yet they are not three eternals : but one eternal. As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated : but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty : and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet there are not three Almighties : but one Almighty.
Page 224 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.