 | Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1857 - 526 pages
...head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ," (chap. 25, § 6), and that He, as King and Head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the...church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate. To these officers the keys of the kingdom are committed," (chap. 30, § 1, 2). Yea, the very passage... | |
 | Robert Shaw - Presbyterian Church - 1857 - 404 pages
...Cor. xi. 28. CHAPTER XXX. OF CHURCH CENSURES. SECTION I. — The Lord Jesus, as king and head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.1 1 I&uix. 6,7. 1 Tim. v. 17. 1 Thess. v. 1Z. Acts xx. 17, 18. 'Heb. xiii. 7, 17, 84. 1... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English literature - 1904 - 600 pages
...thereof, and will ever give and inculcate implicit obedience to their decisions thereanent, do resolve, that as is declared in the Confession of Faith of...this National Established Church, " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church-officers... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 896 pages
...think not. For though it is stated in the Confession that ' the Lord Jesus as King and Head of his Church hath therein appointed a government in the...church officers distinct from the civil magistrate,' yet this provision must be taken m connexion with those others which confer an apparently unlimited... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1860 - 850 pages
...doubtful verdict upon this question. It says, — " The Lord Jesus Christ, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government in the...Church officers distinct from the civil magistrate." There can be no doubt that this declaration applies to the visible Church, and that it is in Hia capacity... | |
 | William Cunningham - Church - 1863 - 582 pages
...have attracted so much attention, and led to such important consequences. The doctrine is this : " The Lord Jesus Christ, as King and Head of the church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of church officers distinct from the civil magistrate." And his Grace's commentary upon it is... | |
 | Lord Robert Montagu - Church and state - 1864 - 490 pages
...courts a like authority in strictly civil affairs. These are the words of the resolution : ' That, as it is declared in the Confession of Faith of this National Established Church, that the Lord Jesus Christ is King and Head of the Church, and hath therein appointed a government,... | |
 | William Patrick Wilkie - 1865 - 230 pages
...congratulated her. CHAPTEE XLIX. " JIST listen tae this, sir : ' The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the...church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate. To these officers the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed, by virtue whereof they have power... | |
 | Reformed Presbyterian Church (Scotland) - 1866 - 308 pages
...coercion, or any direct exercise of civil authority ; for " the Lord Jesus, as king and head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the...church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." In the section from which the quotation is made, it is expressly said, that " the civil magistrate... | |
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The Lord Jesus, as king and head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate. 
