 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,...  The United Presbyterian Magazine - Page 1691864Full view - About this book
 | Church of England, Edmund Tyrrell Green - Church of England. Articles of religion, 1571 - 1912 - 474 pages
...sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven ; yet he hath authority, and it is Ms duty, to take order, that unity and peace be preserved...corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. For the better... | |
 | John Skirving Ewart - Canada - 1912 - 362 pages
...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...be preserved in the church, that the truth of God bo kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses... | |
 | Theology - 1913 - 780 pages
...belonged to the civil magistrate; and that it was his duty, as the Westminster Confession expressed it, "to take order that unity and peace be preserved in...corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed", is of course... | |
 | Glasgow (Scotland) - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1914 - 830 pages
...our constitution in church and state in its present condition, and by express statute you are bound ' to take order that unity and peace be preserved in the church.' That there is great danger of the introduction of organs disturbing the peace and interrupting the harmony... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Creeds - 1919 - 966 pages
...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...corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed ; and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, AMERICAN TEXT. Ch. XXIII. 3.—... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Creeds - 1919 - 950 pages
...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." For the better effecting whereof he hath power to call synods, to be present at them, and to provide... | |
 | George Galloway - Theology - 1922 - 358 pages
...actively supporting it. According to the Westminster divines it is the duty of the civil magistrate " to take order that unity and peace be preserved in the Church, and that the truth of God be kept pure and entire," but in practice he has ceased to exercise any such... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1926 - 674 pages
...of New England not less than of the Presbyterians, said : "The civil magistrate .... hath authority, and it is his duty to take order, that unity and peace...corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, •Ibid, p. 498. and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed."10... | |
 | John H. Leith - Religion - 1982 - 760 pages
...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...corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. For the better... | |
 | Justo L. Gonzalez - Religion - 1984 - 438 pages
...may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and Sacraments . . . yet he hath authority, and it is his duty to take order, that unity and peace...corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. WESTMINSTER CONFESSION... | |
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