 To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed, by virtue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins, to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word and censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners,...  Dina, or Familiar faces [by W.P. Wilkie]. - Page 129by William Patrick Wilkie - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 948 pages
...therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.' II. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven...and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require.4 per ea significatam non recipiunt ; verum indigne illuc accedendo, rei fiunt corpora ac sanguinis... | |
 | 1842
...kingdom of heaven are committed, by virtue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit tins, to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both...absolution from censures, as occasion shall require." ( Westminster Confession, c. xxx. s. 2). Now so far as sin is to be regarded as an offence against... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...the impenitent, both by the word and censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the ministiy of the gospel, and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require b. III. Church the word of God; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Ver.... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty Purge out therefore the old leaven, God, The everlasting Father, The II. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven...absolution from censures, as occasion shall require b. III. Church censures are necessary for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren ; for deterring... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1831 - 442 pages
...virtue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins, to shut that kingdom against tbe impenitent, both by the word and censures; and to...absolution from censures, as occasion shall require." Where does this language occur? By whom is this power assumed? Is it by the Church of Rome? Is this... | |
 | John Hughes - Protestantism - 1834 - 498 pages
...retain and remit sins, to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both by the word and censure ; and to open it unto penitent sinners by the ministry...absolution from censures, as occasion shall require." Chap. xxx. art. 11. page 166. These are modest pretensions for gentlemen who assert that the Apostles... | |
 | David Stuart - Christian union - 1835 - 152 pages
...Thess. v. 12 ; Acts xx. 17, 18 ; Heb. xiii. 7, 17, 24 ; 1 Cor. xii. 28 ; Matt. xxviii. 1 8-20. II. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven...and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require.1 i Malt. xvi. 19 ; xviii. 17, 18 ; John xx. 21-23 ; 2 Cor. ii. 6-a III. Church censures are... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 810 pages
...censures. On this point the Confession of Faith is very decided. " To these officers (the ministers) the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed, by...absolution from censures, as occasion shall require."* By the presbyterian constitution, however, this power is not intrusted to the minister of a parish... | |
 | Dissenters, Religious - 1836 - 64 pages
...it contains also an article, which, if it be not Popery, is something very like it. It is this — "The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath...absolution from censures, as occasion shall require ;" and this article is bottomed upon the very texts to which the church of Rome and its members appeal... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...standard of the established presbyterian kirk of Scotland, as follows: "To these officers [ie, church officers] the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed,...absolution from censures, as occasion shall require" (Westminster Confession, c. xxx. s. 2). For a further and more extended illustration of this subject,... | |
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