A Plea and Plan for Church Unity

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Baker, Jones & Company, 1885 - 81 páginas
 

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Página 80 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified ; receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy Church, that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may truly and godly serve thee, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Página 56 - Ghost has compared to the living " body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part," making "increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Página 80 - Ghost, that the comfortable Gospel of Christ may be truly preached, truly received, and truly followed, in all places, to the breaking down the kingdom of sin, Satan, and death...
Página 5 - I pray for them ; I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me ; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine ; and I am glorified in them.
Página 13 - The .visible church which is also catholic or universal under the gospel, (not confined to one nation as before under the law,) consists of all those throughout the world, that profess the true religion, together with their children ; and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.
Página 32 - ... and every rank, of both sexes likewise, are accused, and will be accused. Nor has the contagion of this superstition seized cities only, but the lesser towns also, and the open country.
Página 13 - The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the gospel ( not confined to one nation as before under the law ) consists of all those, throughout the world, that profess the true religion, and of their children; and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.
Página 70 - But as yet there were no bodies or communities of -men embracing this life, nor any monasteries built, or any regular societies formed into any method of government; but only a few single persons scattered here and there in the deserts of Egypt, till Pachomius, in the peaceable reign of Constantine...
Página 33 - There is not a nation, either of Greek or Barbarian, or of any other name, even of those who wander in tribes, and live in tents, amongst whom prayers and thanksgivings are not offered to the Father and Creator of the universe by the name of the crucified Jesus.
Página 72 - We are but of yesterday," he said ; " yet we have filled your empire, your cities, your islands, your castles, your corporate towns, your assemblies, your very camps, your tribes, your companies, your palace, your senate, your forum ; your temples alone are left to you.

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