 | Robert Brown - 1668 - 502 pages
...afcention of Chrift, and his giving gifts unto men, asApoftles, — vu For what end and purpofe ? v.iz. For the perfecting of the Saints— for the edifying of the Body of Chrift. CoJ. 2. ip. fpeaks of the Churches incieafe as a Body, through the nourifhment miniftred (in... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1790 - 422 pages
...a. due Manner, he hath instituted a regular Subordination and Succeffionof Pajiors and Teachers, for the perfecting of the Saints, for the edifying of the Body of Gbri/i*. An Appointment evidently fui table, both to the Nature of a Being, which fo greatly wants... | |
 | John Gill - 1796 - 550 pages
...keep the ordinances, as they weie delivered; anJ it is profitable to the saints ; since these are for the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till they come to be perfect men, ancl arrive to the measure of the stature of the fulness... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...saints, is their sanctification. For this its teachers, ordinary and extraordinary, were given ; for the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ, * Rom. viii. 29. f Ephes- i. *. |f Ephes. v. 2$, 26, 27. va Tim. i. 9. till we all come in... | |
 | John Gill - 1810 - 620 pages
...is for the enlargement of the interest of Christ in the world ; for the conversion of* sinners ; for the perfecting of the saints ; For the edifying of the body of Christ, Eph, iv. 12. The principal end and use of it, to which all the others tend, is the glory of... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 122 pages
...saints, is their sanctification. For this its teachers, ordinary and extraordinary, were given : for the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a... | |
 | Henry Venn - 1811 - 464 pages
...given by the risen and ascended Saviour, for the work Of the ministry in the conversion of sinners, for the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the body Of Christ, which is the church. And how affecting and tender, how gracious and benevolent, the command... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1811 - 296 pages
...informed, Efih. iv. 11, 12, that apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and .teachers were given " for the perfecting of the saints — for the edifying of the body of Christ ;" which is the church. Evidently, then, there are means of grace ; there are means by •which... | |
 | William Emerson - 1812 - 266 pages
...Christ unto you, according to the commandment of the everlasting gospel, for the obedience of faith, for the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ, so long as it shall please God to continue me among you ; that ye might know the love, which... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1818 - 458 pages
...the common connexion of the divine : where every thing, in short, concurs, in its proper station, for the perfecting of the saints ; for the edifying of the body of Christ. In conformity to the masters of science, who deliver it to their disciples as a. first principle,... | |
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They thus secured the existence of a distinct order of men,* "for the work of the ministry, for the perfecting of the Saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ... 
