History of Christian Churches and Sects, from the Earliest Ages of Christianity, 1. köideR. Bentley, 1856 |
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... minister should preach or teach , publicly or privately , except in conformity to the Church of England ; and Nonconformists were banished from the colony . But this appears to have been done with reference to their political rather ...
... minister should preach or teach , publicly or privately , except in conformity to the Church of England ; and Nonconformists were banished from the colony . But this appears to have been done with reference to their political rather ...
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... minister from year to year . The dissatisfied clergy and their friends obtained a legal opinion from England that the minister is an incumbent for life , and cannot be displaced . But the vestry maintained their power over the minister ...
... minister from year to year . The dissatisfied clergy and their friends obtained a legal opinion from England that the minister is an incumbent for life , and cannot be displaced . But the vestry maintained their power over the minister ...
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... minister is supported , and the expenses of the church defrayed , by means of an annual assessment on the pews , or a voluntary subscription . A few parishes possess endowments ; that of Trinity Church , New York , possesses landed ...
... minister is supported , and the expenses of the church defrayed , by means of an annual assessment on the pews , or a voluntary subscription . A few parishes possess endowments ; that of Trinity Church , New York , possesses landed ...
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... ministers of religion than the laity . The condition of the Episcopal Church in America is certainly at this time full of hope and promise . At the beginning of the present century , the number of her ministers did not exceed two ...
... ministers of religion than the laity . The condition of the Episcopal Church in America is certainly at this time full of hope and promise . At the beginning of the present century , the number of her ministers did not exceed two ...
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... ministers of the gospel : these have departed from the apostles ' fellowship . The success of dissenters is no evidence that they enjoy the divine blessing ; for the most wicked impostors have sometimes had the greatest number of ...
... ministers of the gospel : these have departed from the apostles ' fellowship . The success of dissenters is no evidence that they enjoy the divine blessing ; for the most wicked impostors have sometimes had the greatest number of ...
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Page 214 - ... under the form and figure of bread and wine, which we there presently do see and perceive by outward senses, is verily, substantially, and really contained and comprehended the very selfsame body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which was born of the Virgin Mary, and suffered tipon the cross for our redemption...
Page 258 - No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and...
Page 50 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God.
Page 224 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 43 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 279 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer, but by the framers of the Rubric themselves immediately after the confirmation of it by Act of Parliament.
Page 424 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 264 - Furthermore, we must receive God's promises in such wise, as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture : and, in our doings, that Will of God is to be followed, which we have expressly declared unto us in the Word of God.
Page 240 - Transubstantiation, (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 120 - That he should comfort us. as a mother comforteth her children ; That he should help our infirmities, and make intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered ; That he should bear witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.