The Convocation Book of M DC VI. Commonly Called Bishop Overall's Convocation Book: Concerning the Government of God's Catholic Church and the Kingdoms of the Whole World |
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... Saviour Christ , by His Almighty power , and universal government of all the world , as heir of all things , and head of His Church ; we hold it fit to begin with His Divine power of creation : and thereupon in the sense aforesaid do ...
... Saviour Christ , by His Almighty power , and universal government of all the world , as heir of all things , and head of His Church ; we hold it fit to begin with His Divine power of creation : and thereupon in the sense aforesaid do ...
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... God in mercy ( besides the law of nature left in them ) to propound ] unto them another kind [ of doctrine than nature could ever have ] taught them , viz . the [ mystery of salvation through our Lord and ] Saviour Jesus Christ ; how ...
... God in mercy ( besides the law of nature left in them ) to propound ] unto them another kind [ of doctrine than nature could ever have ] taught them , viz . the [ mystery of salvation through our Lord and ] Saviour Jesus Christ ; how ...
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Concerning the Government of God's Catholic Church and the Kingdoms of the Whole World John Overall William Sancroft. I ... Saviour Christ , but likewise most maliciously , unjustly , and shamefully put Him to death , yet the imme- diate ...
Concerning the Government of God's Catholic Church and the Kingdoms of the Whole World John Overall William Sancroft. I ... Saviour Christ , but likewise most maliciously , unjustly , and shamefully put Him to death , yet the imme- diate ...
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... Saviour Christ . It being most agreeable ' to the just judgment of God , that the most impious hypocrites , who then lived , should be the chief actors in the crucifying of Christ ; which was the most horrible fact that ever was ...
... Saviour Christ . It being most agreeable ' to the just judgment of God , that the most impious hypocrites , who then lived , should be the chief actors in the crucifying of Christ ; which was the most horrible fact that ever was ...
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Concerning the Government of God's Catholic Church and the Kingdoms of the Whole ... Christ , as He was the Lord of lords , and God of gods , and so goberned the ... Saviour Christ , which long after did actually ensue , was virtually ...
Concerning the Government of God's Catholic Church and the Kingdoms of the Whole ... Christ , as He was the Lord of lords , and God of gods , and so goberned the ... Saviour Christ , which long after did actually ensue , was virtually ...
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Page 83 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person.
Page 94 - Ye know, that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you ; but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister ; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant, even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 119 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 83 - For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man: God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world...
Page 167 - It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
Page 168 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 79 - And we own and believe in Jesus Christ, his beloved and only begotten Son, in whom he is well pleased ; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary...
Page 119 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 166 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 167 - ... in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...