 | Aaron Bancroft - Sermons, American - 1822 - 468 pages
...therefore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which he purchased with his own blood." The word God, in this passage, refers to Christ. It is the only place in the New Testament where this... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - Church history - 1823 - 524 pages
...love of God, because he (that is, God) laid down his life for us.'' 1 John iii. 16, or Acts xx. 28, " Feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood." Now, unless God, that is, the Son of God, took human nature into personal union with himself, he had... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1824 - 294 pages
...hath pleased God to convert to the knowledge of the truth; that is, the pastoral care of the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overseer, to feed the flock of Christ which he hath purchased with his own blood. These three forms, of the student, the... | |
 | Henry Ware, American Unitarian Association - Faith - 1827 - 512 pages
...which should be read, "he who was manifest in the flesh was justified," &.c. and Acts, xx, 28, " to feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood," which should be read — " to feed the church of the Lord," &.c. On these points, it is true, that... | |
 | John Acaster - 1829 - 206 pages
...take heed to themselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost has made them overseers—to feed the church of God which he purchased with his own blood, sit still, and use no serious efforts to check and remedy these great and crying evils? Shall their... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1829 - 620 pages
...God gave his life and shed his blood. No such language is to be found in the Scriptures. The text, " feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood," is unquestionably in the material word, an interpolation ; and should be read according to the earliest... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1830 - 280 pages
...hath pleased God to convert to the knowledge of the truth ; that is, the pastoral care of the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overseer, to feed the flock of Christ which he hath purchased with his own blood. These three forms, of the student, the... | |
 | Christian life - 1831 - 412 pages
...plain—7-" He that suffered was divine—that which suffered was human." And in Acts it is said, " feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood." upon his arrival I found he brought me a welcome messenger from you. I thank you for it; but as Mr.... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - 1833 - 340 pages
...study, as it is his bounden and acknowledged duty, " to take heed unto himself, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overseer, to feed the Church of God, which He hath purchased with his own blood !" And may the weakest and meanest of the herd " go in, and out,... | |
 | Baptists - 1833 - 744 pages
...sheep. Oh, let him, as he values his own precious soul, " take heed unto himself, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overseer, to feed the Church of God, which He hath purchased with his own blood." ER III. — A Comparison of the Evidence which can be adduced... | |
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Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. 
