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 Church |
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Thomas Brett. Church from the beginning had its peculiar Rights and Privileges immediately from Christ himself wholly independent on the Civil Magiftrate , or any Temporal Authority whatsoever : That this power was given to the Apoftles ...
Thomas Brett. Church from the beginning had its peculiar Rights and Privileges immediately from Christ himself wholly independent on the Civil Magiftrate , or any Temporal Authority whatsoever : That this power was given to the Apoftles ...
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... Christ above , confisting of innumerable Hofts of Angels , and Just Men made perfect , is not raised from fo finall a ... Christian Church upon Earth , but not at all to the future State . If the Church then be a Kingdom , as the Scrip ...
... Christ above , confisting of innumerable Hofts of Angels , and Just Men made perfect , is not raised from fo finall a ... Christian Church upon Earth , but not at all to the future State . If the Church then be a Kingdom , as the Scrip ...
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... Christ is the Head . Thus it is ( 6 ) Eph 1. 22,23 . Written , ( b ) He gave him to be the Head over all ( c ) Eph . 4. 12. things to the Church , which is his Body . ( c ) And thofe who are fet apart for the Work of the Miniftry , are ...
... Christ is the Head . Thus it is ( 6 ) Eph 1. 22,23 . Written , ( b ) He gave him to be the Head over all ( c ) Eph . 4. 12. things to the Church , which is his Body . ( c ) And thofe who are fet apart for the Work of the Miniftry , are ...
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... Christ therefore is not confined to any one People as the Jewish Church was , but ex- tends to all Nations ... Christ , and every one Members one of another . ( c ) ( c ) 1 Cor . 12.12 . For as the Body is one , and hath many Members ...
... Christ therefore is not confined to any one People as the Jewish Church was , but ex- tends to all Nations ... Christ , and every one Members one of another . ( c ) ( c ) 1 Cor . 12.12 . For as the Body is one , and hath many Members ...
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... Christ's Church , and to prove that the Church of England as it is by Law established , is governed accor- ding to the Rules of the Gofpel , and the Pra- ctice of the Primitive Church in the beft and pureft Ages , that I may obviate all ...
... Christ's Church , and to prove that the Church of England as it is by Law established , is governed accor- ding to the Rules of the Gofpel , and the Pra- ctice of the Primitive Church in the beft and pureft Ages , that I may obviate all ...
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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.