Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Volume 3

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Stanford and Swords, 1854 - Church history
 

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Page 465 - Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone ; if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 449 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 179 - ... by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four General Councils or any of them, or by any other General Council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures...
Page 466 - ... guardians, produce a written certificate of their consent, signed in the presence of witnesses. The meeting then appoints a committee to inquire whether they be clear of other engagements respecting marriage ; and if, at a subsequent meeting, to which the parties also come and declare the continuance of their intention, no objections be reported, they have the meeting's consent to solemnize their intended marriage. This is done in a public meeting for worship, toward the close whereof the parties...
Page 468 - Yearly-meeting, it hath a general care of whatever may arise, during the intervals of that meeting, affecting the society, and requiring immediate attention ; particularly of those circumstances which may occasion an application to government.
Page 466 - ... discipline be put in practice ; and when any case of complaint, or disorderly conduct, comes to their knowledge, to see that private admonition, agreeably to the Gospel rule before mentioned, be given, previously to its being laid before the monthly meeting.
Page 413 - A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the congregational churches in England, agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers in their meeting at the Savoy, October 12, 1658.
Page 466 - If they succeed, the person is by minute declared to have made satisfaction for the offence ; if not, he is disowned as a member of the society. "In disputes between individuals, it has long been the decided judgment of the society, that its members should not sue each other at law. It therefore enjoins all to end their differences by speedy and impartial arbitration, agreeably to rales laid down.
Page 465 - Monthly meetings also grant to such of their, members as- remove into other monthly meetings certificates of their membership and conduct ; without which they cannot gain membership in such meetings. Each...
Page 463 - ... the thraldom of sin ; by this power alone we believe salvation to be effected. We hold that as there is one Lord and one faith, so his baptism is one, in nature and operation ; that nothing short of it can make us living members of his mystical body ; and that the baptism with water, administered by his forerunner John, belonged, as the latter confessed, to an inferior and decreasing dispensation.

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