An Enquiry Into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, & Worship of the Primitive Church: That Flourished Within the First Three Hundred Years After Christ |
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... distinct Answer to this Important Query , it is necessary , that we first examin the Primitive Notion of the Word Church , C upon the due apprehension of which depends the Right Understanding AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CONSTITUTION, DISCIPLINE, ..
... distinct Answer to this Important Query , it is necessary , that we first examin the Primitive Notion of the Word Church , C upon the due apprehension of which depends the Right Understanding AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CONSTITUTION, DISCIPLINE, ..
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... distinct and separate places from one another , so that their first , proper , and chief Pastor could not possibly attend the service of them all ; whether the property must in such case be altered , and they could no longer be one ...
... distinct and separate places from one another , so that their first , proper , and chief Pastor could not possibly attend the service of them all ; whether the property must in such case be altered , and they could no longer be one ...
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... distinct terms of Bishops and Presbyters was Ignatius , who lived in the beginning of the Second Century . From hence I beg to observe these three things : 1st . That as often as we meet with the word Bishop or Pres- byter in the Holy ...
... distinct terms of Bishops and Presbyters was Ignatius , who lived in the beginning of the Second Century . From hence I beg to observe these three things : 1st . That as often as we meet with the word Bishop or Pres- byter in the Holy ...
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... distinct member and part , whereof that complex body consists ; and plainly denotes that every part , as well one as the other , held an assembly on that day ; or else the absurdity would follow , that Cities and Countries ...
... distinct member and part , whereof that complex body consists ; and plainly denotes that every part , as well one as the other , held an assembly on that day ; or else the absurdity would follow , that Cities and Countries ...
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... distinct places assigned for their doing so . How far this is like our Enquirer's Congregational Diocese , or can be reasonably opposed to a genuine Episcopal one , even in after ages of the Church , I leave the Reader to judge . There ...
... distinct places assigned for their doing so . How far this is like our Enquirer's Congregational Diocese , or can be reasonably opposed to a genuine Episcopal one , even in after ages of the Church , I leave the Reader to judge . There ...
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Acts Alexandria Altar amongst ancient Antioch Apostles Apud Cyprian Apud Euseb assembly authority Baptism baptized Bishop of Rome Bishoprick Bishops and Presbyters brethren called Carthage Catholic Church censured Christ Christian Church Clemens Clergy communion Congregation consent Consistory Contra Celsum Council Cypr Cyprian Diocese discipline Eccl Ecclesia Ecclesiastical Edit election Enquirer's Episcopal Epist Eucharist faith Fathers Felicissimus governours holy Holy Orders Ibidem Ignatius imposition of hands Irenæus judge Justin Martyr Laity learned Enquirer Lord ministers Novatian Office ordained Origen Oxon Parish particular Church Pastors penitent persons Polycarp prayer preached Presbyters Presbytery presided primitive Church prove province quæ quotation Rome says Schism schismatics Scripture sense shews suffrage sunt Synod Tertullian thereof thing tion unity unto whole Church words δὲ εἰς ἐκκλησίας ἐν ἐπὶ ἐπισκόπου Θεοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 354 - And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder ; so he shall open, and none shall shut ; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 211 - 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 336 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Page 179 - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity...
Page 323 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 45 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you...
Page 190 - 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 174 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 208 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them; Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 346 - Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.