The Primitive Church Compared with the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Present Day: Being an Examination of the Ordinary Objections Against the Church, in Doctrine, Worship, and Government, Designed for Popular Use : with a Dissertation on Sundry Points of Theology and Practice, Connected with the Subject of Episcopacy |
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... tion to the very many persons in the author's field of labor , whose ideas of the Protestant Episcopal Church have been of the most erroneous , and consequently unfavorable character . Hence , he has endeavored to state the common ...
... tion to the very many persons in the author's field of labor , whose ideas of the Protestant Episcopal Church have been of the most erroneous , and consequently unfavorable character . Hence , he has endeavored to state the common ...
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... tion , Does the writer think as I do ? or does he think like those who lead the party to which I choose to belong ? If yea -he speaks like an oracle . If nay - there is no truth in him . ' In the face , however , of this danger , the ...
... tion , Does the writer think as I do ? or does he think like those who lead the party to which I choose to belong ? If yea -he speaks like an oracle . If nay - there is no truth in him . ' In the face , however , of this danger , the ...
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... tion - Apostles laid their hands on all who were baptised— Calvin's objection examined - Its absurdity demonstrated -True principle laid down elsewhere by Calvin himself— The primitive Church on Confirmation - Tertullian — Cyp- rian ...
... tion - Apostles laid their hands on all who were baptised— Calvin's objection examined - Its absurdity demonstrated -True principle laid down elsewhere by Calvin himself— The primitive Church on Confirmation - Tertullian — Cyp- rian ...
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... tion of any earthly head leads to Popery . Therefore the necessity for councils when any agreement of the whole is required . Hooker's definition of the Church universal- Schismatics are a part of it — And even heretics them- selves ...
... tion of any earthly head leads to Popery . Therefore the necessity for councils when any agreement of the whole is required . Hooker's definition of the Church universal- Schismatics are a part of it — And even heretics them- selves ...
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... tion of the court . Hooker . 367-373 CHAPTER X. Is it not better for the Church that their general convention should legislate for the whole body , on all subjects of uni- versal concern ? Analogy between the Federal and State ...
... tion of the court . Hooker . 367-373 CHAPTER X. Is it not better for the Church that their general convention should legislate for the whole body , on all subjects of uni- versal concern ? Analogy between the Federal and State ...
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Page 76 - Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 198 - Wherefore of these men, which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Page 192 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; "knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 73 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John : who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost : (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them : only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 322 - 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. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation, to call and send ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page 222 - And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Page 343 - How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
Page 277 - If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates : then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose ; and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire ; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment...
Page 56 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 196 - Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases ; and he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.