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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... Governours in the Churches which they gathered . The first is from Clemens Romanus , where that Father says , The Apostles went forth preaching in City and Country ( as our Enquirer is pleased to the First Fruits of their Ministry for ...
... Governours in the Churches which they gathered . The first is from Clemens Romanus , where that Father says , The Apostles went forth preaching in City and Country ( as our Enquirer is pleased to the First Fruits of their Ministry for ...
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... Governours there , I conceive that the Holy Scriptures will be clearly against him . For the supremacy of power over all the Apostolical Churches , for the greatest part of the Apostles ' lives , was reserved in their own hands . It was ...
... Governours there , I conceive that the Holy Scriptures will be clearly against him . For the supremacy of power over all the Apostolical Churches , for the greatest part of the Apostles ' lives , was reserved in their own hands . It was ...
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... governours with glorying in the numerous multitudes of believers there . But after all , ( according to our Author , ) " the Christians of that Bishopric were no more in number than they are now in our parishes . " This sounds somewhat ...
... governours with glorying in the numerous multitudes of believers there . But after all , ( according to our Author , ) " the Christians of that Bishopric were no more in number than they are now in our parishes . " This sounds somewhat ...
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... Governours , in many parts of the Church , laid down for themselves , in the use and practice of that ordaining power . If this distinction were but duly attended to , and applied without prejudice to the present controversy ; the ...
... Governours , in many parts of the Church , laid down for themselves , in the use and practice of that ordaining power . If this distinction were but duly attended to , and applied without prejudice to the present controversy ; the ...
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... Governours and Pastors of all that did , or should believe , in their time , without the concurrence or consent of any ; and this was the root and fountain of all Church - power granted from above . 2dly . That the same Apostles must ...
... Governours and Pastors of all that did , or should believe , in their time , without the concurrence or consent of any ; and this was the root and fountain of all Church - power granted from above . 2dly . That the same Apostles must ...
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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.