Ecclesiastical Chronology, Or, Annals of the Christian Church from Its Foundation to the Present Time: Containing a View of General Church History and the Course of Secular Events ... : to which are Added Lists of Councils and of Popes, Patriarchs, and Archbishops of Canterbury |
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Page ix - But what is that description of the visible Church which they dislike ? Why, ' that it is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments are duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 407 - A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the congregational churches in England, agreed upon, and consented unto by their elders and messengers in their meeting at the Savoy, October 12, 1658.
Page 18 - ... and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross: wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name ; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in the earth, and things under the earth ; and that every tongue should confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.'§...
Page 18 - God, who was incarnate for our salvation ; and in the Holy Ghost, who preached by the prophets the dispensations of God, and the...
Page 18 - God, and the advents, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the...
Page 19 - Christ, our Lord, and God, and Saviour, and King ; and that every tongue should confess to him ; and that he may exercise just judgment upon all, and may send spiritual wickednesses, and the transgressing and apostate angels, with all ungodly, unrighteous, lawless, and blaspheming men, into everlasting fire ; but...
Page 18 - Maker of heaven, and earth, and sea, and all things in them : and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who was incarnate for our salvation...
Page 13 - The subordinate government of each particular church was vested in itself; that is to say, the whole body elected its ministers and officers, and was consulted concerning all matters of importance.
Page 217 - ... or consent of the grandees. This greatness of the German emperors gave rise to a system of polity which the Popes took great care to support with all their credit and authority. According to this system, the whole of Christendom composed, as it were, a single and individual republic, of which the Pope was the spiritual head, and the Emperor the secular. The duty of the latter as head and patron of the Church, was to take cognizance that nothing should be done contrary to the general welfare of...
Page 223 - They sent also every year commissioners to Rome, to levy the money due to the royal treasury. The popes used to date their acts from the years of the emperor's reign, and to stamp their coin with his name ; and all the higher clergy were virtually bound and subject to the secular power, by the solemn investiture of the ring and the crosier. This investiture gave to the emperors and the other sovereigns the right of nominating and confirming bishops, and even of deposing them if they saw cause. It...