 | John Hayward - Church statistics - 1836 - 168 pages
...no more sin as long as they live here or deny the place of forgiveness to such as truly repent. 13. The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things... | |
 | George Holden - 1836 - 428 pages
...represent it? What are its discriminating marks and characters1 ? 1 According to the 19th Article, " The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached," &c. ; where the word " congregation" is used as equivalent to " society ;" for 1st, the... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - Sermons, English - 1836 - 398 pages
...will build ; not the perishable temple, but the church of them that live for ever. His work is the " congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...Article to be "a congregation of faithfull men," and so a portion of the visible Church of Christ, " in which the pure word of GOD is preached, and the Sacraments be duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 1964 - 532 pages
...the Article includes a little more than the apostle has expressed): OF THE CHURCH The visible Cburch of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which...Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered." 4. Cf. Vergil, Aeneid, Bk. VI, I. 716-17. Wesley has both garhled and misspelled the... | |
 | John H. Leith - Religion - 1982 - 760 pages
...doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved. XIX. Of the Church. 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... | |
 | 394 pages
...Articles is very close to that found in Calvin's Institutes. The visihle Church of Christ" is defined as "a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments he duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things... | |
 | Richard Thomas Hughes - Political Science - 1988 - 280 pages
...Articles (itself derived from Article VIII of the Augsburg Confession) was suitably ecumenical: "XIII. The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that... | |
 | W. J. Torrance Kirby - History - 1990 - 158 pages
...sacramenta". Cp. Article IX of the Articles of Religion, "De Ecclesia": "The visible Church ofChrist is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure...word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to... | |
 | Stephen Ward Angell - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 356 pages
...church beliefs in his theology. He defined the church as Luther and Calvin would have defined it, as "a congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached and the sacraments duly administered."74 Preaching was more important than the sacraments... | |
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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. 
