| Nick Whitehead, Hazel Whitehead - Religion - 1998 - 132 pages
...sacramental experience; and they reassure us of God's promises towards us. This echoes what Article XXV says: Sacraments ordained of Christ be not only badges or...witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also... | |
| John E. Booty, Stephen Sykes, Jonathan Knight - Religion - 1998 - 542 pages
...Anglican understanding of both Church and sacraments. As we read in the Article 'Of the Sacraments': Sacraments ordained of Christ be not only badges or...witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also... | |
| Victor Shea, William Whitla - History - 2000 - 1092 pages
...and a pledge to assure us thereof." Similarly, in the Twenty-fifth Article the sacraments are said to be "not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession,...witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us." The "superstitions" associated with... | |
| Karen B. Westerfield Tucker - Religion - 2001 - 368 pages
...Article, though it was weakened by the removal of certain words: Sacraments ordained of Christ, are not only badges or tokens of Christian Men's Profession; but rather they are certain [sure witnesses, and effectual] Signs of Grace, and God's good Will towards us, by the... | |
| Gerald Lewis Bray - England - 2004 - 682 pages
...commandments which are called moral. 16. Of the Sacraments of the New Testament 85. The Sacraments ordained by Christ be not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession, but rather certain, sure witnesses and effectual or powerful signs of grace and God's good will towards us, by... | |
| Baptism - 2005 - 164 pages
...Christ. 7 Once again, Hooker is very close to the Church of England's formularies. Article XXV states: 'Sacraments ordained of Christ be not only badges...witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also... | |
| John Bradford - Religion - 2007 - 486 pages
...Bnglaad. See also Article XXVI. or Edward VI., in Liturgies of Edw. VI. pp. 533, 78, Park, SocJ [* " Sacraments ordained of Christ be not only badges or...effectual signs of grace and God's good-will towards as; by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm... | |
| Tom J. Nettles, Richard L. Pratt - Religion - 2007 - 227 pages
...THE ARTICLES OF RELIGION (1784; METHODIST) XVI: Of the Sacraments Sacraments ordained of Christ are not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession, but rather they are certain signs of grace, and God's goodwill toward us, by the which he works invisibly in us, and... | |
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