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... the recognition of episcopal authority that each individual congregation was to
be held together , and that divisions originating in personal wilfulness and
ambition were to be prevented . To Irenĉus the supremacy of the bishop was the
great ...
... the recognition of episcopal authority that each individual congregation was to
be held together , and that divisions originating in personal wilfulness and
ambition were to be prevented . To Irenĉus the supremacy of the bishop was the
great ...
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... repress the pride of the deacons , who , deliberately ignoring the rank they
really held , raised themselves above the priests , and measured their dignity ,
not by their merit , but by the riches of the Church which they held under their
control .
... repress the pride of the deacons , who , deliberately ignoring the rank they
really held , raised themselves above the priests , and measured their dignity ,
not by their merit , but by the riches of the Church which they held under their
control .
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away , that divine illumination was still granted to menand to men who held no
office in the Church ; that inspired prophets - not consecrated bishops — are the
true successors of the apostles and the divinely appointed guardians of the ...
away , that divine illumination was still granted to menand to men who held no
office in the Church ; that inspired prophets - not consecrated bishops — are the
true successors of the apostles and the divinely appointed guardians of the ...
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The Donatists resisted , and they were supported by hordes of wild and reckless
men who , according to the description of Augustine , “ followed no kind of useful
occupation ; they held their own lives in fanatical contempt , and thought no ...
The Donatists resisted , and they were supported by hordes of wild and reckless
men who , according to the description of Augustine , “ followed no kind of useful
occupation ; they held their own lives in fanatical contempt , and thought no ...
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held together , and was constituted one mystical and glorious society ; it was
through the bishops that the Church of later centuries inherited the grace and
blessedness of apostolic times . But the bishops were confederate under the
Pope ; and ...
held together , and was constituted one mystical and glorious society ; it was
through the bishops that the Church of later centuries inherited the grace and
blessedness of apostolic times . But the bishops were confederate under the
Pope ; and ...
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Page 467 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 468 - 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 this realm: So help me God.
Page 385 - 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, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly SETTLED, administered, and observed.
Page 468 - The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith...
Page 393 - a liberty to tender consciences, and that no man should be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion, which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page 185 - ... which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the sacraments...
Page 299 - The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.
Page 415 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 414 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words and no other : IV. I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the book, entitled, 'The Book of Common Prayer...
Page 260 - And the better to effect the intended reformation, we desire there may be a general synod of the most grave, pious, learned, and judicious divines of this island, assisted with some from foreign parts professing the same religion with us ; who may consider of all things necessary for the peace and good government of the Church...
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| Title | History of English Congregationalism Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform |
| Author | R. W. Dale |
| Editor | Sir Alfred William Winterslow Dale |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton, 1907 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 12 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 787 pages |
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