...includes a little more than the apostle has expressed.) " Of the Church. " The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered." It may be observed, that at the same time our thirty-nine...

...Church of England. The Church of England speaks ambiguously. (( The visible Church' (says she *) is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments are duly ministered, according to Christ's ordinance;" that is, such is...

...will build ; not the perishable temple, but the church of them that live for ever. His work is the " congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things...

...not narrow the entrance into the kingdom of * Our articles say that "the visible church of Christ, is a congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached and the sacraments duly administered." But this visible church, according to Pearson, (see Pearson on the Creed Article, ix.)...

...controversies of faith,' most heartily adhering to this description, that' the visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things...

...controversies of faith,' most heartily adhering to this description, that ' the visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things...

...or conventicle, and not to a Church. Her Majesty shows that she has not so learned to think of any ' congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, ' and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on his part, avouches before Europe and the Church,...

...Church of England, and the Lutheran, and other Confessions, affirm that the visible church is a society in which " the pure word of God is preached," and " the sacraments duly administered" in " all things necessary." Therefore there was no need of reformJ " Ipsa est quae aliquando...

...an accurate and comprehensive definition of the term Church. — " The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance." To which I subjoin...

...uncovenanled mercy of God. But "we have not so learned Christ." We acknowledge as a part of the church " every congregation of faithful men in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments are duly administered." The third character of the church is its perpetuity....