 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1907 - 636 pages
...to save men is from firsts by ultimates; and this is what is meant by saying that whatever he shall bind or loose on earth shall be bound or loosed in heaven. The ultimates by which the Lord operates are on earth, and indeed in men. For the sake of this, that... | |
 | Joseph Cullen Ayer (Jr.) - 1913 - 738 pages
...[Matt. 16 : 18] . . . To Thee I have given the keys of the kingdom of heaven," or "Whatsoever thou shalt bind or loose on earth, shall be bound or loosed in heaven," you therefore presume that the power of binding and loosing has descended to you, that is, to every... | |
 | Peter George Mode - 1921 - 772 pages
...hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority ecclesiastical within it self, regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is...any other ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever. . . . Hence it follows that consociation of churches is not to hinder the exercise of this power; but... | |
 | 1923 - 320 pages
...build my Church," ' to thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven,' or ' whatsoever thou shalt bind or loose on earth, shall be bound or loosed in heaven,' you, therefore, pretend that the power of binding and loosing is derived to you — that is, to all... | |
 | Columba Marmion - 1928 - 434 pages
...succeed confession. The sacrament of penance._was instituted under the form of judgment. " All that you bind or loose on earth shall be bound or loosed in heaven ; those sins shall be remitted that you remit ". But it is for the culprit to accuse himself of his... | |
 | Stanley Lawrence Greenslade - 1956 - 416 pages
...build my Church, to thee I have given the keys of the kingdom of heaven," or: "Whatsoever thou shalt bind or loose on earth shall be bound or loosed in heaven," that you therefore presume that the power of binding and loosing has come down to yourself also, that... | |
 | John Calvin - 904 pages
..."the salt of the earth" [Matt. 5:13-14]; they are to be heard for Christ's sake [Luke 10:16]; whatever they "bind or loose on earth shall be bound or loosed in heaven" [Matt. 16:19; 18:18; cf. John 20:23]. But they show by their name how much is permitted to them in... | |
 | James T. Shotwell, Louise Ropes Loomis - 1991 - 772 pages
...my Church, ... to thee have I given the keys of the kingdom of heaven," or: " Whatsoever thou shall bind or loose on earth shall be bound or loosed in heaven," you therefore assume that the power of binding and loosing has descended to you or to any church related... | |
 | John Flavel - 1671 - 572 pages
...and ratify them. Hence in the censures of the church, you have that great expression, " Whatsoever ye bind or loose on earth, shall be bound or loosed in heaven." Matt. 18 : 18. And so for the word and ordinances, "All power in heaven and earth is given unto mc.... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1869 - 552 pages
...build My Church, to thee have I given the keys of the kingdom of heaven;' or, 'Whatsoever thou shalt bind or loose on earth shall be bound or loosed in heaven ; ' dost thou, therefore, presume this power of loosing and binding to have descended to thee — that... | |
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Every church or particular congregation of visible saints in gospelorder, being furnished with a presbytery, at least with a teaching elder, and walking together in truth and peace, hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority ecclesiastical... 
