It is evident unto all men diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these orders of ministers in Christ's church — bishops, priests, and deacons. The North American Review - Page 4911886Full view - About this book
| John Henry Hopkins - Episcopacy - 1835 - 412 pages
...England, we find a much more precise, and primitive doctrine. ' It is evident, ' saith the ordinal, ' unto all men diligently reading holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostle's time there have been these orders of ministers in Christ's Church, — bishops, priests and... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1835 - 482 pages
...attestation of the church of England, in the preface to the book of ordination : " It is evident to all men diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the apostles' times there have been these orders of ministers in Christ's church, bishops, priests, and deacons."4... | |
| Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...discipline, and of proving, to their own entire satisfaction and to the silencing of all gainsayers, that, from the Apostles' time, there have been " these orders of Ministers in the Church— " Bishops, Priests, and Deacons." The Student, who adopts and acts upon her suggestion,... | |
| Enchiridion - 1837 - 762 pages
...these proofs together, in the preface to the Form of giving Orders, which begins in these words ; " It is evident unto all men diligently reading holy...authors, that from the apostles' time there have been three orders of ministers in Christ's church, bishops, priests, and deacons." I hope nobody among us... | |
| Edward Bather - Christian education - 1837 - 300 pages
...evident," says the preface to that formulary, " unto all men diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, that from the Apostles' time there have been these...in Christ's Church, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons." In the answers printed by our historian Strype, from the Cotton manuscript, Cranmer, with two others... | |
| John Hothersall Pinder - Bible - 1837 - 324 pages
...Again, in the Preface to the Ordination Services — " It is evident unto all men diligently reading the holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time, there have been these orders of Mias attested by all history, was upheld, for 1500 years. The first separate bodies of Christians,... | |
| Robert Nelson - Church year - 1837 - 632 pages
...naturally make us suppose that he instituted some officers for the government of it. " And it is evident to all men diligently reading holy Scripture, and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there hath been these orders of ministers in Christ's church, bishops, priests and deacons : which offices... | |
| Theology - 1838 - 864 pages
...expressly contradicted by the church of England. The preface to the Book of Ordination commences thus — " It is evident unto all men diligently reading holy...in Christ's church, bishops, priests, and deacons." And I have no doubt it is to meet this notion of the Romanists and puritans, that in a subsequent paragraph... | |
| Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1838 - 584 pages
...observed in the Preface to our Ordination Services, " It is evident unto all men, diligently reading the holy scripture and ancient authors, that from the...Christ's Church ; bishops, priests, and deacons." This distinction of orders, and the preeminence and superiority of the first, consisting in the power... | |
| Benjamin Dorr - 1838 - 300 pages
...in one common service, CHAPTER IV. TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS. The preface to our ordination service says, "It is evident unto all men, diligently reading...authors, that from the apostles' time there have been three orders of ministers in Christ's church,— bishops, priests, and deacons." We have already shown... | |
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