THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same. The Eclectic Review - Page 294edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
| 2005 - 164 pages
...congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite and necessary to the same. (Thirty-nine Articles, XIX) If we look further at this definition we can... | |
| Robert David Redmile - 2006 - 285 pages
...faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same." Article XX of the Authority of the Church, The 1562 Thirty-nine Articles of Religion. "The Church hath... | |
| Robert Edward Bartlett - 2006 - 229 pages
...[ccetus fidelium], in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered, according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same,"1 It is true, as I have already admitted, that the historical argument appears at first sight... | |
| W. David Buschart - 2009 - 373 pages
...congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same."'72 Although there was an antecedent community of belief among the Jews, the church of Christ... | |
| Robert Anderson - 2007 - 345 pages
...course we answer, with the Reformers, " Neither the one nor the other." According to them " the Church " is " a congregation of faithful men, in the which...things that of necessity are requisite to the same " (Art, xix.). This is the creed of the Church of England. And if any bigot should set up the plea... | |
| S. T. Kimbrough - 2007 - 312 pages
...congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.4 This definition combines, to some extent, a view of what the Church is with what the Church... | |
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