An Account of Church-government, and Governours. Wherein is Shewed, that the Government of the Church of England is Most Agreeable to that of the Primitive ChurchJohn Wyat, 1710 - 452 pages |
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... Learned Treatife of the Antiquities of the Chriftian Church , wherein he has given us fuch a clear Account of the Conftitution of the primitive Church for four or five Centu- ries , that by reading his Book only , a Man may have almost ...
... Learned Treatife of the Antiquities of the Chriftian Church , wherein he has given us fuch a clear Account of the Conftitution of the primitive Church for four or five Centu- ries , that by reading his Book only , a Man may have almost ...
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... Learned Gentlemen , or any other that I know of , seem to have had the fame Designs in View that I had , to give a particular Account of all the feveral Orders and Degrees that are intrufted with the care of Eccle- fiaftical Government ...
... Learned Gentlemen , or any other that I know of , seem to have had the fame Designs in View that I had , to give a particular Account of all the feveral Orders and Degrees that are intrufted with the care of Eccle- fiaftical Government ...
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... learned Adversary Eccles . Synods , anfwered to it in this manner : Are not Convocations more duly held , when they are made up of Bishops and their fubordinate Presbyters , than where the Presbyters reign alone ? At least , are not ...
... learned Adversary Eccles . Synods , anfwered to it in this manner : Are not Convocations more duly held , when they are made up of Bishops and their fubordinate Presbyters , than where the Presbyters reign alone ? At least , are not ...
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... Learned and Orthodox Divines ( as they are called in the Title Page of their Book ) difcovered their egregious Ignorance in Church Hiftory . For had they been any thing acquainted with the State of the Primi- tive Church , they would ...
... Learned and Orthodox Divines ( as they are called in the Title Page of their Book ) difcovered their egregious Ignorance in Church Hiftory . For had they been any thing acquainted with the State of the Primi- tive Church , they would ...
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... Learned Presbyterians , that Bishops were Superior to Presbyters , and therefore when he speaks of a Bishop , must be supposed to understand the Superior by that Word , tells us , that He knew St. Polycarp , and was inftructed by him ...
... Learned Presbyterians , that Bishops were Superior to Presbyters , and therefore when he speaks of a Bishop , must be supposed to understand the Superior by that Word , tells us , that He knew St. Polycarp , and was inftructed by him ...
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Page 10 - 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 11 - But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 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...
Page 3 - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Page 63 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Page 12 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone ; in Whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in Whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 34 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself...
Page 225 - PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: 2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 5 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.
Page 31 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it ; and he called it Nehushtan.
Page 26 - THE Queen's Majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England, and other her 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.