The Doctrines of Ministerial Order in the Reformed Churches of the 16th and 17th Centuries |
Contents
HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE CONSTITUTING OF THE MINISTERIAL ORDER OF THE REFORMED CHURCH | 1 |
THE ORDINARY DUTIES of the ReFORMED MINISTERIAL ORDER | 34 |
THE POWERS of the Reformed MINISTERIAL ORDER | 62 |
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