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... true grounds on which the reformers and the Church stand in this matter , will degrade it . Dr. Miller is certainly welcome to any advantage his cause may gain from the unworthy artifice of applying to the great and good men who ...
... true grounds on which the reformers and the Church stand in this matter , will degrade it . Dr. Miller is certainly welcome to any advantage his cause may gain from the unworthy artifice of applying to the great and good men who ...
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... true . In his partial knowledge of the subject , or in the strength of that prejudice which may warp even honest minds , he may not , and doubtless does not , see its con- trariety to truth . The well - informed and unbiassed portion of ...
... true . In his partial knowledge of the subject , or in the strength of that prejudice which may warp even honest minds , he may not , and doubtless does not , see its con- trariety to truth . The well - informed and unbiassed portion of ...
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... true piety , and of social and domestic duty , by means having for their professed end the glory of GoD , and the good of souls . The principle of compounding for favourite sins , by great zeal against others , has a much more substan ...
... true piety , and of social and domestic duty , by means having for their professed end the glory of GoD , and the good of souls . The principle of compounding for favourite sins , by great zeal against others , has a much more substan ...
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... true , if the Apostles had not devolved their office upon the Bishops . He repeatedly declares , that the Bishops succeeded to the apostolic pre - eminence , and that Bishops ( Bishops in the ecclesiastical sense of the word , such as ...
... true , if the Apostles had not devolved their office upon the Bishops . He repeatedly declares , that the Bishops succeeded to the apostolic pre - eminence , and that Bishops ( Bishops in the ecclesiastical sense of the word , such as ...
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... true point of light . 1. Let it be remembered , that several pointed , express , and unequivocal passages have been adduced to prove , that Jerome believed Episcopacy to be an apostolical institution . If , then , your quotations fairly ...
... true point of light . 1. Let it be remembered , that several pointed , express , and unequivocal passages have been adduced to prove , that Jerome believed Episcopacy to be an apostolical institution . If , then , your quotations fairly ...
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Page 200 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same.
Page 133 - Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Page x - It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 146 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
Page 146 - Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Page 201 - England ; no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon in the Church of England, or suffered to execute any of the said Functions, except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto, according to the Form hereafter following, or hath had formerly Episcopal Consecration, or Ordination.
Page x - Church, no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon, in this Church, or suffered to execute any of the said Functions, except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto, according to the Form hereafter following, or hath had Episcopal Consecration or Ordination.
Page 133 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 187 - Of these two orders only, that is to say, priests and deacons, Scripture maketh express mention, and how they were conferred of the apostles by prayer and imposition of hands ; but the primitive Church afterward appointed inferior degrees, as sub-deacons, acolytes, exorcists, &c.
Page 197 - ALMIGHTY God, giver of all good things, who by thy Holy Spirit hast appointed divers Orders of Ministers in thy Church...