 | Missions - 1879 - 556 pages
...C'jS ART. IV.— THE DOCTRINE OF FORGIVENESS. I.— ABSOLUTION. " The Lord 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... | |
 | John McClintock - Bible - 1868 - 954 pages
...Westminster Confession is as follows: " Of Church Censures. — The Lord Jesns, 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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - Congregationalism - 1882 - 352 pages
...doctrine by agreeing to the broad Presbyterian proposition, " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the...church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." * It ia time to notice that, whilst in the Assembly there were discussions violently polemical, there... | |
 | William Nixon - 1882 - 494 pages
...force to enter the temple, and perform the priestly work of offering incense there. "The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of the church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of church-officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." They are the pastors and teachers, the... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Church and state - 1884 - 478 pages
...1 Baillie, ii. pp. 114, 192, 2H 3 213, 225, * See Birkbeck Hill's Colonel Cordon ' and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government ' in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magis* trate.' There is nothing said of any particular kind of government, nor of the degrading identification... | |
 | Andrew Edgar - Church of Scotland - 1886 - 436 pages
...thought it a point of great practical importance, was, 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."* For ten long and weary years, Mr. Wyllie remained under restraint more or less irksome. In 1672, his... | |
 | Henry Jackson Van Dyke - 1890 - 292 pages
...essential principle of the Solemn League and Covenant, and the substitution of the sublime truth that " 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 that to these officers, and to them... | |
 | Charles Augustus Briggs - Bible - 1891 - 134 pages
...themselves are, to their outward senses." (CF, chap, xxix., 7.) " 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... | |
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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. 
