A Commentary on the Thirty-nine Articles: Forming an Introduction to the Theology of the Church of EnglandLongmans, 1877 - 336 pages |
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... necessary for the ministry .... It deals a good deal with results , and contains excellent digests of the theology of our principal writers . In doing this it supplies a greatly needed want - a brief estimate of the standpoint of our ...
... necessary for the ministry .... It deals a good deal with results , and contains excellent digests of the theology of our principal writers . In doing this it supplies a greatly needed want - a brief estimate of the standpoint of our ...
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... necessary to give some account . The earliest doctrinal formulary of a Reformed Church is that known as ' the Confession of Augsburgh . ' It was the work of Melanchthon , revised by Luther and other divines , and was presented to the ...
... necessary to give some account . The earliest doctrinal formulary of a Reformed Church is that known as ' the Confession of Augsburgh . ' It was the work of Melanchthon , revised by Luther and other divines , and was presented to the ...
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... necessary idea of the dependence of all things upon Him . II . The Trinity in Unity . We have already noticed the definition of the term person given in the Augsburg Confession . It may be desirable , before entering on the details of ...
... necessary idea of the dependence of all things upon Him . II . The Trinity in Unity . We have already noticed the definition of the term person given in the Augsburg Confession . It may be desirable , before entering on the details of ...
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... necessary to anticipate in some measure Articles II . and V .; for we shall have to take these three separate pro- positions . The Father is God . The Son is God . And the Holy Ghost is God . The first of these needs no proof . There is ...
... necessary to anticipate in some measure Articles II . and V .; for we shall have to take these three separate pro- positions . The Father is God . The Son is God . And the Holy Ghost is God . The first of these needs no proof . There is ...
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... necessary to cause the Virgin to perform the actions of a mother ' must be attributed to the Holy Spirit . But this did not involve any communication of the substance of the Holy Ghost , which is uncreated . The flesh of Christ was not ...
... necessary to cause the Virgin to perform the actions of a mother ' must be attributed to the Holy Spirit . But this did not involve any communication of the substance of the Holy Ghost , which is uncreated . The flesh of Christ was not ...
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Page 229 - We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church.
Page 51 - Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas...
Page 139 - 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 mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 169 - Whosoever, through his private judgment, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the Traditions and Ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of God, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly...
Page 179 - Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Page 59 - Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching Ceremonies and Rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the Civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any commonwealth ; yet notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral.
Page 267 - THE Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual ; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.
Page 75 - God's wrath and damnation. And this infection of nature doth remain — yea, in them that are regenerated ; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in Greek phronema sarkos, which some do expound the wisdom, some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire of the flesh, is not subject to the Law of God. And although there is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized, yet the Apostle doth confess that concupiscence and lust hath of itself the nature of sin.
Page 225 - Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; Faith is confirmed, and Grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God. The Baptism of young Children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agree•able with the institution of Christ.
Page 211 - The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed. upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same, they have a wholesome effect or operation ; but they that receive them unworthily, purchase to themselves damnation, as St.