History and Exposition of the Twenty-five Articles of Religion of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchEaton & Mains, 1908 - 392 pages |
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... relation , under the authority of John Wesley , and the rules of the English Methodists governed also the societies in America . But when the colonies became independent states , and the English government and Church had no further ...
... relation , under the authority of John Wesley , and the rules of the English Methodists governed also the societies in America . But when the colonies became independent states , and the English government and Church had no further ...
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... relations of the two natures in the one Divine Person of Christ . It may be that Wesley deemed them superfluous , as the nature of Christ is unequivocally stated without them : " So that two whole and perfect natures , that is to say ...
... relations of the two natures in the one Divine Person of Christ . It may be that Wesley deemed them superfluous , as the nature of Christ is unequivocally stated without them : " So that two whole and perfect natures , that is to say ...
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... relation to the Holy Trinity , the divinity and person of Jesus Christ , and the deity and personality of the Holy Ghost . The Nicene Creed is so named because the greater part of it was drawn up and agreed to at the Council of Nice in ...
... relation to the Holy Trinity , the divinity and person of Jesus Christ , and the deity and personality of the Holy Ghost . The Nicene Creed is so named because the greater part of it was drawn up and agreed to at the Council of Nice in ...
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... relation to the person of Christ , involving his divinity , had not arrived at scientific precision in the mind of the Church at that time . For this reason , as Arius was an eloquent and popular preacher , the doctrines taught by him ...
... relation to the person of Christ , involving his divinity , had not arrived at scientific precision in the mind of the Church at that time . For this reason , as Arius was an eloquent and popular preacher , the doctrines taught by him ...
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... relation of God to the universe . " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth " ( Gen. I. 1 ) . " Thou hast created all things , and for thy pleasure they are and were created " ( Rev. 4. 11 ) . The Article in this phrase ...
... relation of God to the universe . " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth " ( Gen. I. 1 ) . " Thou hast created all things , and for thy pleasure they are and were created " ( Rev. 4. 11 ) . The Article in this phrase ...
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Page 143 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 284 - And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying. Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Page 143 - These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Page 324 - The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another, but rather is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death; insomuch that, to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ; and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ.
Page 369 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 335 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
Page 167 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 225 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 375 - Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread.
Page 143 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.