Episcopacy Examined and Re-examined: Comprising the Tract "Episcopacy Tested by Scripture", and the Controversy Concerning that Publication |
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... proper , on the former ? Surely not : because Mahomedism and Mahomedan ministers exist , is no presumption that they have truth on their side . Again : the question between the Quakers and those who hold to an ordained ministry and ...
... proper , on the former ? Surely not : because Mahomedism and Mahomedan ministers exist , is no presumption that they have truth on their side . Again : the question between the Quakers and those who hold to an ordained ministry and ...
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... proper atoning sacrifice ; and the same cavilling persecu tion attends almost all simple truths , and that usually in propor- tion to their obviousness , or the facility of their demonstration . Episcopacy does not escape these ...
... proper atoning sacrifice ; and the same cavilling persecu tion attends almost all simple truths , and that usually in propor- tion to their obviousness , or the facility of their demonstration . Episcopacy does not escape these ...
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... proper to add , that he does not believe they will suffer by any comparison of their character with those of other denominations . 3. A further suggestion , allied to the one last mentioned , and like it extraneous to the scriptural ...
... proper to add , that he does not believe they will suffer by any comparison of their character with those of other denominations . 3. A further suggestion , allied to the one last mentioned , and like it extraneous to the scriptural ...
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... proper , it is even a pious undertaking ; and it may , in some of the cases , have been done sufficiently for personal vindication . But nothing of this kind can make them rank as either authorities or guides in the present controversy ...
... proper , it is even a pious undertaking ; and it may , in some of the cases , have been done sufficiently for personal vindication . But nothing of this kind can make them rank as either authorities or guides in the present controversy ...
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... proper to advert to the fact , that the name " Bishop , " which now designates the highest grade of the ministry , is not appropriated to that office in Scripture . That name is there given to the middle order , or Presbyters ; and all ...
... proper to advert to the fact , that the name " Bishop , " which now designates the highest grade of the ministry , is not appropriated to that office in Scripture . That name is there given to the middle order , or Presbyters ; and all ...
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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.