Discussions on Church Principles: Popish, Erastian, and PresbyterianT. & T. Clark, 1863 - 576 pages |
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... Church of Christ , yet there is little in them that belongs only to passing ... Church system of Romanism , beginning with the foundation which these ... Rome itself to this latter claim , by the assertors of what have been called ...
... Church of Christ , yet there is little in them that belongs only to passing ... Church system of Romanism , beginning with the foundation which these ... Rome itself to this latter claim , by the assertors of what have been called ...
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... Church of Rome has consecrated and confirmed these depraved tendencies of human nature . She has done so by giving to them , and to their necessary manifestations and results , the sanction , more or less formal and explicit , of the church ...
... Church of Rome has consecrated and confirmed these depraved tendencies of human nature . She has done so by giving to them , and to their necessary manifestations and results , the sanction , more or less formal and explicit , of the church ...
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... Church of Rome than ever they have been among Protestants . Another feature of superstition to which also Dr Whately adverts under this head , is the natural tendency of men to indulge in unwarranted speculations , and in unfounded ...
... Church of Rome than ever they have been among Protestants . Another feature of superstition to which also Dr Whately adverts under this head , is the natural tendency of men to indulge in unwarranted speculations , and in unfounded ...
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... Church of Rome , accom- modating herself to this natural tendency of men towards a vicarious religion , and anxious to devise pretences for encouraging and strengthening it , has invented tenets , and embodied some of them in outward ...
... Church of Rome , accom- modating herself to this natural tendency of men towards a vicarious religion , and anxious to devise pretences for encouraging and strengthening it , has invented tenets , and embodied some of them in outward ...
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... Church of Rome teaches that her priests have the power of forgiving sins , and this not only declaratively , but judicially and authoritatively . Romanists acknowledge other mediators besides Christ , not indeed , as they are accustomed ...
... Church of Rome teaches that her priests have the power of forgiving sins , and this not only declaratively , but judicially and authoritatively . Romanists acknowledge other mediators besides Christ , not indeed , as they are accustomed ...
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Page 170 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within...
Page 212 - The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven ; yet he hath authority, and it is his duty, to take order that unity and peace be preserved in the Church...
Page 169 - THE King's Majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England, and other his dominions, unto whom the chief government of all estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction.
Page 320 - The visible church which is also catholic or universal under the gospel, (not confined to one nation as before under the law,) consists of all those throughout the world, that profess the true religion, together with their children...
Page 467 - That it is, and has been since the Reformation, the principle of this Church that no minister shall be intruded into any parish contrary to the will of the congregation...
Page 226 - Church; to receive complaints in cases of mal-administration, and authoritatively to determine the same: which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the Word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission, not only for their agreement with the Word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God, appointed thereunto in his Word.
Page 323 - For altogether this is to be avoided, that any man be violently intruded or thrust in upon any congregation ; but this liberty, with all care, must be reserved to every several church, to have their votes and suffrages in election of their ministers.
Page 465 - For a long series of years annual instructions had been given to the Commission, " to make due " application to the King and Parliament, for " redress of the grievance of patronage, in case " a favourable opportunity for doing so should
Page 253 - Word," and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the Church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.3J 07.
Page 27 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.