The Church Universal: A Series of Discourses on the True Comprehension of the Church, as Exhibited Mainly in the Holy Scriptures and Subordinately in the Standards of the Protestant Episcopal Church. With Thoughts on Church Government and Worship: and a View of the Church in Heaven |
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... organizations . So long , however , as they do not hold free intercommunion , and acknowledge one visible unity , their separation , though it leaves them within the Catholic pale , is yet one of the sorest and most to be deprecated of ...
... organizations . So long , however , as they do not hold free intercommunion , and acknowledge one visible unity , their separation , though it leaves them within the Catholic pale , is yet one of the sorest and most to be deprecated of ...
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... organization , and that it actually is so applied in the Bible , in history , and in common usage ; it is , nevertheless , plain , that what has , thus far , been said leads directly to this definition ; The Church , in its highest ...
... organization , and that it actually is so applied in the Bible , in history , and in common usage ; it is , nevertheless , plain , that what has , thus far , been said leads directly to this definition ; The Church , in its highest ...
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... organized Body , such means have been graciously entrusted to its use . This , however , does not make the Church , in itself , an agent in saving men , any more than medicine , put into the hands of a Physician , makes the Physician ...
... organized Body , such means have been graciously entrusted to its use . This , however , does not make the Church , in itself , an agent in saving men , any more than medicine , put into the hands of a Physician , makes the Physician ...
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... organized body . Our being I cannot close the present view without pressing a question , which grows out of all that I ... organization , does , by no means , settle this question . Are we included among the " peculiar people , " whom I ...
... organized body . Our being I cannot close the present view without pressing a question , which grows out of all that I ... organization , does , by no means , settle this question . Are we included among the " peculiar people , " whom I ...
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... organization ; or that it never describes a ministry and sacraments as gracious endowments of the Church . But , reserving these points for future examination , when I hope to shew them in a consistent light , what I say , for the ...
... organization ; or that it never describes a ministry and sacraments as gracious endowments of the Church . But , reserving these points for future examination , when I hope to shew them in a consistent light , what I say , for the ...
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Page 36 - The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy : I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Page 130 - It is evident unto all men, diligently reading holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church, — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 71 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 126 - For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 40 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 103 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
Page 36 - My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all : and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Page 139 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 19 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 37 - SPIRIT in the inner man; that CHRIST may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of CHRIST, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of GOD.