An Ecclesiastical History from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time |
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... Pastor of the Congregational Church , Essex Street , Boston . " Walk about Zion , go round about her , tell the towers thereof ; Mark ye well her bulwarks , consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following ...
... Pastor of the Congregational Church , Essex Street , Boston . " Walk about Zion , go round about her , tell the towers thereof ; Mark ye well her bulwarks , consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following ...
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... pastors and teachers , for the perfecting of the saints , for the work of the ministry , for the edifying of the body of ... pastor , elder ; these are evidently syno- nymous . Bishop , a corruption of the term episcopus , signifies ...
... pastors and teachers , for the perfecting of the saints , for the work of the ministry , for the edifying of the body of ... pastor , elder ; these are evidently syno- nymous . Bishop , a corruption of the term episcopus , signifies ...
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... pastors , we have found a class of character neither higher nor lower than a minister of Christ's church , a shepherd of Christ's flock . The character of the pastor then is official , and distinct from the mass of the people ; he is ...
... pastors , we have found a class of character neither higher nor lower than a minister of Christ's church , a shepherd of Christ's flock . The character of the pastor then is official , and distinct from the mass of the people ; he is ...
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... pastor appear never to be disputed nor violated , and so it continued for the first three centuries ; and so it will be preserved with sacred tenacity , wherever the spirit of the gospel takes the lead . The ministry of the gospel was ...
... pastor appear never to be disputed nor violated , and so it continued for the first three centuries ; and so it will be preserved with sacred tenacity , wherever the spirit of the gospel takes the lead . The ministry of the gospel was ...
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... pastor . THE EQUALITY , UNITY , AND INDEPENDENCE , Of all christian societies , during the apostolic age , is a subject worthy of our notice . The supremacy of Rome , with that of St. Peter , is no where hinted at in the sacred writings ...
... pastor . THE EQUALITY , UNITY , AND INDEPENDENCE , Of all christian societies , during the apostolic age , is a subject worthy of our notice . The supremacy of Rome , with that of St. Peter , is no where hinted at in the sacred writings ...
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Page 31 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation : 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
Page 28 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 20 - And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
Page 507 - Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it. And the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things.
Page 19 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 506 - I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed Churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no further than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 510 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 296 - God, without the merit of Jesus Christ ; that the old law of Christ was soon to be abolished, and that a new law, enjoining the baptism of blood, to be administered by whipping, was to be substituted in its place.
Page 260 - Marriage was celebrated in the churchyards;** and that every action in life might bear the marks of this dreadful situation, the people were prohibited the use of meat, as in Lent, or times of the highest penance; were debarred from all pleasures and entertainments; and were forbidden even to salute each other, or so much as to shave their beards, and give any decent attention to their person and apparel.