 | Nathan Marcus Adler - 1845 - 696 pages
...perform the equivalent duties. Case, page 47, you thus proceed, "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 which quotation you refer to the twenty-third chap, and third section of the Confession of Faith;... | |
 | Carl Leopold Adolph Sydow, Adolphus Sydow - Church and state - 1845 - 228 pages
...the following most explicit announcement : — " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, has therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." The means by which the Church officers are to enforce the authority of their government are entirely... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 784 pages
...Absolution ! Here is the language of their Confession : — "The Lord Jesus, as king aad 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... | |
 | 1847 - 558 pages
...re-stating the proposition we have now established upon an impregnable and immovable foundation, viz., the Lord Jesus Christ, as King and Head of the Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of Church officers, distinct on the one hand from the civil magistrate, and on the other from... | |
 | Robert Shaw (of Whitburn.) - Westminster Assembly :d (1643-1652) - 1847 - 372 pages
...Cor. xi. 28. CHAPTER XXX. OP 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 ' I»a. ii. 6, 7. ITim. T. 17. 1 Thew. v. 12. Acl. xx. 17,18. Hob. liii. 7, 17, S4. lCor.xii.28.... | |
 | 1848 - 592 pages
...words of the Confession of Faith, they hold that "The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of the Church, has power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. The position of the Christian members of the Anglican Church is certainly a very degrading one at present.... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - Church history - 1848 - 392 pages
...crime." ever give and inculcate implicit obedience to their decisions in such matters, do resolve, that, as is declared in the Confession of Faith of...Jesus Christ, as King and Head of the Church, hath ' O therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...doctors, and elders." In the Westminster Confession of Faith, it is thus announced, — " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of the Church, hath, therein, appointed...Church officers, distinct from the Civil Magistrate. Rutherford asserts — " The King, as king, hath not a nomothetick or legislative power to make laws,... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 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 Churchofficers distinct from the civil magistrate." And his Grace's commentary upon it is... | |
 | Robert Buchanan - Scotland - 1849 - 706 pages
...preservation of purity, peace, and unity in the Church, yet " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the...Church officers distinct from the civil magistrate :"\ which government is ministerial, not lordly, and to be exercised in consonance with the laws of... | |
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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. 
