Episcopacy Examined and Re-examined: Comprising the Tract "Episcopacy Tested by Scripture", and the Controversy Concerning that Publication |
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... Presbyters or Elders , and Deacons ; of which the highest only has the right to ordain and confirm , that of general supervision in a diocese , and that of the chief administration of spiritual discipline , besides enjoy- ing all the ...
... Presbyters or Elders , and Deacons ; of which the highest only has the right to ordain and confirm , that of general supervision in a diocese , and that of the chief administration of spiritual discipline , besides enjoy- ing all the ...
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... Presbyters ( or , more strictly , Presbyters alone ) have a scriptural right to ordain , or whether the agency of a minister of higher grade than Presbyters is not essential to the due performance of that act ? Whichever way this great ...
... Presbyters ( or , more strictly , Presbyters alone ) have a scriptural right to ordain , or whether the agency of a minister of higher grade than Presbyters is not essential to the due performance of that act ? Whichever way this great ...
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... ( Presbyters ) in the Church , and lay ' elders ' in some denomina- tions ; there were ' consuls ' in Rome and in ... Presbyter ; but the Bishop of a diocese , or the highest grade of the ministry , we must there seek , not under that name ...
... ( Presbyters ) in the Church , and lay ' elders ' in some denomina- tions ; there were ' consuls ' in Rome and in ... Presbyter ; but the Bishop of a diocese , or the highest grade of the ministry , we must there seek , not under that name ...
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... Presbyter . Many words have both a loose and a specific meaning . The word “ angel ” is often applied loosely ; h but ... ( Presbyters ) did , we deny . We open this branch of our argument with the remark , that - Apostles and Elders ...
... Presbyter . Many words have both a loose and a specific meaning . The word “ angel ” is often applied loosely ; h but ... ( Presbyters ) did , we deny . We open this branch of our argument with the remark , that - Apostles and Elders ...
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... Presbyters . And this is substantiating nearly the whole episcopal claim . But the defenders of parity reject these our views of Scripture and of official rights , and build their system on the theory which we have pronounced to be mere ...
... Presbyters . And this is substantiating nearly the whole episcopal claim . But the defenders of parity reject these our views of Scripture and of official rights , and build their system on the theory which we have pronounced to be mere ...
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Page 267 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ, and no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light ; therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works.
Page 167 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 39 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 159 - Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Page 147 - For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
Page 203 - AND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Page 114 - AS I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine...
Page 103 - But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
Page 65 - IX. .AM I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?
Page 210 - The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.