Letters on the Ministry, Ritual and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Addressed to the Rev. Wm. E. Wyatt in Reply to a SermonN.G. Maxwell, 1820 - 268 pages |
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... divine origin of any particular form of church government , and claim its lineal descent from the apostles . I had thought the long agitated controversy , about the di- vine right of episcopacy , was generally allowed to be at rest ...
... divine origin of any particular form of church government , and claim its lineal descent from the apostles . I had thought the long agitated controversy , about the di- vine right of episcopacy , was generally allowed to be at rest ...
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... be called a religious faith . That faith can be worth very little , and have little efficacy on the life , which is not built on personal knowledge and conviction . Another evil consequence of believing in a divine- ly protected my.
... be called a religious faith . That faith can be worth very little , and have little efficacy on the life , which is not built on personal knowledge and conviction . Another evil consequence of believing in a divine- ly protected my.
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... divine- ly protected succession of officers in the church , is the perpetuity of error . Among protestants I believe there are no advocates for infallibility . In the chris- tian church , as in every thing else , error has always been ...
... divine- ly protected succession of officers in the church , is the perpetuity of error . Among protestants I believe there are no advocates for infallibility . In the chris- tian church , as in every thing else , error has always been ...
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... divine origin , which is not enjoined in the most absolute terms in the scriptures , and no ar- ticles of faith can be considered of divine authority , which are not there explicitly stated . Possible de- signs , and probable inferences ...
... divine origin , which is not enjoined in the most absolute terms in the scriptures , and no ar- ticles of faith can be considered of divine authority , which are not there explicitly stated . Possible de- signs , and probable inferences ...
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... divine right of any institution . From this examination , I am convinced that the scriptures teach a doctrine on this subject , completely at va- riance with the one you have attempted to defend . By way of recapitulation , I will ...
... divine right of any institution . From this examination , I am convinced that the scriptures teach a doctrine on this subject , completely at va- riance with the one you have attempted to defend . By way of recapitulation , I will ...
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Page 90 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess, That our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man ; God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds ; and Man of the substance of his mother, born in the world ; perfect God, and perfect man, of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Fattier, as touching his Godhead ; and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood.
Page 118 - As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the Works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their minds to high and heavenly things...
Page 90 - And in this Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another ; But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together, and co-equal.
Page 58 - BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be.
Page 141 - The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart ; that is, the word of faith which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Page 113 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 235 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.
Page 64 - RECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 89 - And yet they are not three eternals : but one eternal. As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated : but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty : and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet there are not three Almighties : but one Almighty.
Page 224 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.