 | Cushing Biggs Hassell, Sylvester Hassell - 1886 - 1050 pages
...constituted. 3. The purest churches under Heaven are subject (1 Corinthians v.; Revelation ii., iii.) to mixture and error, and some have so degenerated as to become (Revelation xviii. 2 ; 2 Thessalonians ii. 11, 12) no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan ;... | |
 | Charles Augustus Briggs - 1889 - 336 pages
...inerrancy, or completion. They do not propose to speak the final word in theology ; they tell us that, " The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error," f and that " all synods or councils since the apostles' times, whether general or particular, may err,... | |
 | Llewelyn John Evans - 1890 - 228 pages
...please God because they are not done in a right manner (xvi. 7) ; the latter merely to prove that " the purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error" (xxv. 5), both of which citations are perversions of the meaning of the passages. (/) Only seventeen... | |
 | Williston Walker - 1893 - 626 pages
...thereunto. IV. This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less, visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less...public worship performed more or less purely in them." fession by any Errors everting the foundation, or unholiness of conversation,' are, and may be called... | |
 | 1893 - 412 pages
...thereto. "4. This Catholic Church hath been sometimes more — sometimes less — visible, and particular churches which are members thereof, are more or less...public worship performed more or less purely in them." Add to these the two following paragraphs in the next chapter, on the Communion of Saints : — " 1... | |
 | J. R. Laidlaw - 1893 - 204 pages
...Confession: "This Catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular churches which are members thereof are more or less...public worship performed more or less purely in them." Section v. says : " The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some... | |
 | William John Knox Little, William John Knox-Little - 1898 - 398 pages
...together with their children." Particular Churches, entitled to the name of Catholic because Christian, " are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of...public worship performed more or less purely in them." The Church of Scotland is Catholic according to this definition ; and as it is recognised by the State,... | |
 | Edward Dafydd Morris - 1900 - 886 pages
...church invisible, they were constrained in all honesty to say for their own communion as for others: The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error. But the acknowledged imperfections of the various Protestant bodies in Europe, serious as some of these... | |
 | Dugald Butler - 1903 - 648 pages
...Presbytery is the only lawful or only desirable government. It declares that " particular Churches are more or less pure according as the doctrine of...public worship performed more or less purely in them." As there is nothing in the Confession of Faith against Episcopacy so there is no legal obligation laid... | |
 | Ernst Friedrich Karl Müller - 1903 - 1060 pages
...h. Кот. 11, a. 1. Cor. 5, g. 7. Peí: 12, в. и. — i. Rev. 2. and 3. Chapters throughout. 5. The purest Churches under Heaven are subject both to Mixture and Error k : and some have so de40 generated as to become no Churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan '.... | |
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And particular Churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the Gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them. 
