An Essay on Apostolical Succession: Being a Defence of a Genuine Protestant Ministry, Against the Exclusive and Intolerant Schemes of Papists and High Churchmen, and Supplying a General Antidote to Popery : Also, a Critique on the Apology for Apostolical SuccessionG. Lane, 1846 - 354 pages |
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... ecclesiastical officers precisely the same . For instance , as I have just said , he whom we now call a presbyter , or priest , was fre- quently styled in the New Testament , a bishop . But it is not for names that we contend . We ask ...
... ecclesiastical officers precisely the same . For instance , as I have just said , he whom we now call a presbyter , or priest , was fre- quently styled in the New Testament , a bishop . But it is not for names that we contend . We ask ...
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... ecclesiastical arrangement for a class of ministers whom they choose to call bishops , without excluding the presbyters of other churches from their Scriptural power and authority to per- form all the duties necessary for the being and ...
... ecclesiastical arrangement for a class of ministers whom they choose to call bishops , without excluding the presbyters of other churches from their Scriptural power and authority to per- form all the duties necessary for the being and ...
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... ecclesiastical learning , and he devoted it all to the establishment of this system of exclusiveness on behalf of episcopal powers and authority . Now this high Church champion , after all his toil to estab- lish these claims , fairly ...
... ecclesiastical learning , and he devoted it all to the establishment of this system of exclusiveness on behalf of episcopal powers and authority . Now this high Church champion , after all his toil to estab- lish these claims , fairly ...
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... ecclesiastical discipline may be extracted from the writings of the New Testament , is very precarious . There is , " says he , " no passage of any sacred writer which openly professes this design . Indeed there is not one which so ...
... ecclesiastical discipline may be extracted from the writings of the New Testament , is very precarious . There is , " says he , " no passage of any sacred writer which openly professes this design . Indeed there is not one which so ...
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... ecclesiastical learning , positively affirms , that " the office of the apostles PERISHED with the apostles ; in which office there never was any SUCCESSION to any of them , EXCEPT TO JUDAS THE TRAITOR . " t 99 * Let the reader also ...
... ecclesiastical learning , positively affirms , that " the office of the apostles PERISHED with the apostles ; in which office there never was any SUCCESSION to any of them , EXCEPT TO JUDAS THE TRAITOR . " t 99 * Let the reader also ...
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Page 55 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
Page 68 - While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision, which believed, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Page 70 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 77 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.
Page 308 - So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness ; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Page 28 - But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them ; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you ; but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister : and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 78 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying ; Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird...
Page 290 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood.
Page 28 - But be not ye called Rabbi : for One is your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for One is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters : for One is your Master, even Christ.
Page 307 - For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body...