Charges to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Lewes: Delivered at the Ordinary Visitations in the Years 1840 to 1854. With Notes on the Principal Events Affecting the Church During that Period, Volumen1

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Macmillan, 1856

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Página 106 - of which latter words the English Article on the Church, the 19th, is almost a literal translation : " The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered.
Página 63 - the Lord. And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing ; and they brought the Lord's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all
Página 95 - to admonish the people often that they defer not the Baptism of their children longer than the first or second Sunday next after their birth, or other holiday falling between, unless upon a great and reasonable cause.
Página 90 - but at two times in the year, at Easter and Whitsuntide; at which times it was openly ministered in the presence of all the congregation; which custom now being grown out of use, although it cannot for many considerations be well restored again, yet it is thought good to follow the same as near as conveniently may be.
Página 141 - from a number of passages in Cyprian's Letters. Thus in the 5th, written during his retirement from Carthage to the Presbyters and Deacons, he says, that, being alone, he had been unable to reply to the application of his co-presbyters, " quando a primordio episcopatus mei statuerim nihil sine consilio vestro et sine consensu
Página 108 - recte docetur, et rede administrantur Sacramento,, or, in other words, " a congregation of faithful people, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly administered." The reason why this proposition is repeated in the German Confession, is, because the Article proceeds to state, what we lay down in the 34th,—Nee necesse est ubique esse similes traditiones humanas, seu ritus aut caeremonias ab hominibus
Página 90 - Baptism to be ministered at any other time than Easter and Whitsuntide, except in case of necessity. And there remained lately divers signs and tokens thereof. For every Easter and Whitsun-even, until this time, the fonts were hallowed in every church; and many collects and other prayers were read for them that were baptized,
Página 158 - unto the Clergy alone the power to make ecclesiastical laws, we are to hold it a thing most consonant with equity and reason, that no ecclesiastical laws be made in a Christian commonwealth, without consent as well of the laity as of the clergy, but least of all without consent of the highest power.— In this case therefore that vulgar axiom is of force: Quod
Página 158 - were it so that the clergy alone might give laws unto all the rest, forasmuch as every estate doth desire to enlarge the bounds of their own liberties, is it not easy to see how injurious this might prove unto men of other condition

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