A sermon [on 1 Cor. xii.1] preached in Ripon minster, at the ordination held by the lord bishop of Ripon ... July 29th, 18381838 |
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... Minister will correspond with his estimate of Christianity itself . The mere formalist in Religion will confine his ... Ministers beyond a regular performance of official acts , and an outward decency of demeanour in the eyes of the ...
... Minister will correspond with his estimate of Christianity itself . The mere formalist in Religion will confine his ... Ministers beyond a regular performance of official acts , and an outward decency of demeanour in the eyes of the ...
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... Minister is to be weighed and valued . It is an office which bears no resemblance or proportion to any other within ... ministers and stewards of his mysteries : ' to mankind , as shepherds set over them in the Lord , to watch for their ...
... Minister is to be weighed and valued . It is an office which bears no resemblance or proportion to any other within ... ministers and stewards of his mysteries : ' to mankind , as shepherds set over them in the Lord , to watch for their ...
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... Ministry , and as I have already on more than one occasion treated of it in its more general bearings , I may be excused , if on the present I confine myself more particularly to a single point connected with it , which possesses ...
... Ministry , and as I have already on more than one occasion treated of it in its more general bearings , I may be excused , if on the present I confine myself more particularly to a single point connected with it , which possesses ...
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... minister instruction to others , not to throw away any of those aids , which God has placed within their reach ; not to call that common which God hath cleansed ; but to number among the appointed means of spiritual guidance the ...
... minister instruction to others , not to throw away any of those aids , which God has placed within their reach ; not to call that common which God hath cleansed ; but to number among the appointed means of spiritual guidance the ...
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... ministry , " be apt and meet " not only " for their godly conversation , ” but for " their learning " also , " to exercise that mi- " nistry duly , to the honour of God and the edifying " of his Church , " let us not forget that this is ...
... ministry , " be apt and meet " not only " for their godly conversation , ” but for " their learning " also , " to exercise that mi- " nistry duly , to the honour of God and the edifying " of his Church , " let us not forget that this is ...
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A Sermon [On 1 Cor. XII.1] Preached in Ripon Minster, at the Ordination Held ... Charles Dodgson No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 13 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 9 - But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need ofthee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 9 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom ; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit ; to another faith by the same Spirit ; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy ; to another discerning of spirits ; to another divers kinds of tongues ; to another the interpretation of tongues ; but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Page 15 - Do you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you the office of the ministry in the Church of Christ, to serve God for the promoting of his glory and the edifying of his people ? Answ.
Page 13 - Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Page 16 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God*.
Page 14 - Take heed that the persons, whom ye present unto us, be apt and meet, for their learning and godly conversation, to exercise their Ministry duly, to the honour of God, and the edifying of his Church.
Page 16 - God;" so in the text he saith, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Page 13 - Catholic, she determines thus : -)r " that though the church be a witness and a keeper of Holy Writ, yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of salvation.
Page 15 - to seek nothing but the glory of God, and the salvation of the souls committed to your charge. May He, who has blest you with that