 | Presbyter pseud - 1849 - 120 pages
...the slightest inconsistency with another statement in the same Confession, where it is declared, that the Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate, — a declaration of which the Record... | |
 | Robert Buchanan - Church and state - 1849 - 514 pages
...kirk." While the confession of faith, which is also the law of the land, pointedly affirms pomt' that " the Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of church officers distinct from the civil magistrate." And further, that under this delegation... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...have firmly objected, wo suppose, to the doctrine of our confession, that " the Lord Jesus Christ, as king and head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of church-officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." With the others, the question, and a very momentous... | |
 | Robert Buchanan - Scotland - 1849 - 706 pages
...violated that great cardinal doctrine of the church's constitution, — that, " The Lord Jesus Christ, as King and Head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate," and that " to these officers the keys... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Isaac Watts - Bible - 1850 - 742 pages
...such, partake of these holy mysteries,2 or be admitted thereunto.3 CHAPTER XXX. OP CHURCH CENSURE9. 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.4 II. To these officers the keys of the kingdom... | |
 | James Bryce (D.D.) - 1850 - 460 pages
...to, as they have been repeatedly declared by this Church, are the two following, viz. — I. "That the Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government in the baud of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." II. " That no minister shall be intruded... | |
 | Free Church of Scotland - 1860 - 488 pages
...purity, peace, and unity in the Church, yet « Tha Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hatb therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers distinct from the civil magistrate " (ch. xxx. sec. 1) ; which government is ministerial, not lordly, and to be exercised in consonance... | |
 | 1850 - 622 pages
...between civil and ecclesiastical gorernment expressed in the words of the Westminster Confession — ' The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a gorernment in the hand of church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.' And he would lead us... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...hierarchy." 6. Because the presbyterian church government may be independent of the state. The Lord Jesus is ny expedients ; you may conveniently stick your candle in a bottle, or w hands of church officers distinct from the civil magistrate. As magistrates may lawfully call a synod... | |
 | James Bryce (D.D.) - 1850 - 500 pages
...stood pledged by their resolution to acknowledge. The doctrine laid down in that Declaration that " the Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his church, hath therein established a government in the hands of church officers distinct from the civil magistrate," the presbytery... | |
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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. 
