The Free Communionist : Or Unrestricted Communion of the Lord's Supper with All True Believers, Advocated: And Objections of Restricted Communionists, Considered: in Four EssaysTrustees of the Freewill Baptist Connection, 1841 - 214 pages |
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... authority of the Scriptures.- The sacrament of the Lord's supper is a positive institution , and should therefore be observed strictly according to the requirement of the institutor . His will is the measure of our duty respecting it ...
... authority of the Scriptures.- The sacrament of the Lord's supper is a positive institution , and should therefore be observed strictly according to the requirement of the institutor . His will is the measure of our duty respecting it ...
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... authority of Christ for their existence , his will is the measure of our duty in rela- tion to them . This will of his is fully exhibited in the sacred volume . It was not left to be gathered by implication or inference , but is stated ...
... authority of Christ for their existence , his will is the measure of our duty in rela- tion to them . This will of his is fully exhibited in the sacred volume . It was not left to be gathered by implication or inference , but is stated ...
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... authority of Christ , not the effect but the means of his manifestation , and first execu- ted by one who knew him not , is an incomprehensi- ble mystery . ' " 5. The baptism of John , unlike Christian bap- tism , was not administered ...
... authority of Christ , not the effect but the means of his manifestation , and first execu- ted by one who knew him not , is an incomprehensi- ble mystery . ' " 5. The baptism of John , unlike Christian bap- tism , was not administered ...
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... authority is there for such an assertion ? Where is the command that makes the baptism of each individual member es- sential to the existence of every gospel church ? We are cited to the example of the apostles , who admitted none but ...
... authority is there for such an assertion ? Where is the command that makes the baptism of each individual member es- sential to the existence of every gospel church ? We are cited to the example of the apostles , who admitted none but ...
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... authority in the inspired volume , it is evident that none but those who exhib- it proper evidence of Christian character should ev- er be admitted to the eucharist . be decided who are Christians ? made the test ? Then who shall make ...
... authority in the inspired volume , it is evident that none but those who exhib- it proper evidence of Christian character should ev- er be admitted to the eucharist . be decided who are Christians ? made the test ? Then who shall make ...
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Page 38 - And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members, every one of them, in the body as it hath pleased Him.
Page 64 - Then, said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him, which should come after him, that is on Christ Jesus.
Page 37 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body : so also is Christ. — 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 213 - The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 204 - FURTHERMORE, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Page 85 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 77 - After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in My Blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till He come.
Page 38 - 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 honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 49 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 78 - I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.