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| Free Church of Scotland. General Assembly - 1851 - 488 pages
...the administration of the word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven : " yet he hath authority, and it is his duty, to take...prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed.' For the better effecting whereof, he hath power to call and he... | |
| Charles Jobson Lyon - Great Britain - 1851 - 346 pages
...compelled the King to subscribe against his own convictions), has these words : — " The Civil Magistrate hath authority, and it is his duty, to take order,...prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. For the better effecting whereof, he hath power to call synods,... | |
| Martyrs - Christian martyrs - 1883 - 614 pages
...power of the civil magistrate. And chap, xxiii. § 3. That it is the magistrates' duty to take care, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemy and neresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline, prevented... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Church and state - 1884 - 478 pages
...Confession. The twenty-third chapter expressly states in the strongest manner that the civil magistrate ' hath authority, and it is his ' duty, to take order...or reformed, and ' all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and ' observed. For the better effecting whereof he hath power to ' call synods,... | |
| Baptists - 1884 - 622 pages
...the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven : yet he hath authority, and it is his duty to take...all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline be prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. For... | |
| William Gregg - Canada - 1885 - 658 pages
...They give no decision as to the doctrine taught in these words (Confession ch. xxiii., sect. 3) : ' Yet he hath authority, and it is his duty to take...prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered and observed ; for the better effecting whereof he hath power to call synods,... | |
| Charles Augustus Briggs - Presbyterian Church - 1885 - 562 pages
...the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven ; yet he hath authority, and it is his duty to take...prevented or reformed ; and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. For the better effecting whereof he hath power to call synods,... | |
| Daniel Fraser (M.A.) - 1885 - 248 pages
...nation as a nation, and throughout its entire population, may become a Church, " taking order, further, that unity and peace be preserved in the Church, that...all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline be prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed."*... | |
| Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...power of the civil magistrate.'1 Then, of the duty of the civil magistrate himself, Chapter XXIII says: 'It is his duty to take order, that unity and peace...all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline be prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered and observed.' Such... | |
| Philip Schaff - Church and state - 1888 - 176 pages
...the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the key s of the kingdom of heaven; ' yet he hath authority, and it is his duty to take...prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed.* For the better effecting whereof he hath power to call synods,... | |
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