 | W. Gary Crampton - Religion - 2004 - 270 pages
...appointed these officers in order to rule His church: "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 Westminster divines, under their "Form of Presbyterial Church Government," teach that there are... | |
 | William Hanna - 2006 - 628 pages
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 | Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - Religion - 2006 - 448 pages
...be admitted thereunto. CHAPTER XXX. Of Church Censures. I. The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the...Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate. II. To these officers the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed; by virtue whereof they have... | |
 | Patricia Springborg - Philosophy - 2007
...the chapter 'Of Church Censures', it stated that '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'. While the ideal-historical story that Hobbes tells of the Hellenization of Christianity and the rise... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1843 - 652 pages
...those divines in one simple but comprehensive 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. A divinely appointed ministry, with authority both to teach and to rule — an eldership with ruling... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1908 - 618 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 Christ,... | |
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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. 
