 | Nathanael Emmons - 1855 - 124 pages
...any law of man, or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife. CHAPTER XXVI. • Of the Church. THE catholic or universal...the Head thereof, and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. II. The whole body of men throughout the world, professing... | |
 | 1855 - 592 pages
...religion, together with their children." And this, as distinguished from "the invisible church," which " consists of the whole number of the elect that have...spouse, the body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all." These two peculiar features will be found to characterize the scheme of redemption for... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1856 - 474 pages
...let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born ol CHAPTER XXV. Of the Church. THE catholic or universal church, which...and is the spouse, the body, the fulness of him that tilleth all in all". II. The visible church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel,... | |
 | James Lumsden - 1856 - 164 pages
...invisible : for Calvinists hold, that " the catholic or universal church, which is invisible, consists in the whole number of the elect that have been, are,...Christ, the head thereof ; and is the spouse, the boily, there is no mistake as to the character of the parents, either as to their personal godliness... | |
 | Robert Shaw - 1857 - 404 pages
...other internal or invisible. The Church, viewed as invisible, consists, according to our Confession, " of the whole number of the elect that have been, are,...gathered into one, under Christ, the head thereof." Of this Church the apostle speaks (Eph. v. 25-27) : " Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for... | |
 | James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - 1858 - 970 pages
...taught in his infancy, (so long since that it has slipped his memory,) that the invisible church " consists of the whole number of the elect, that have...gathered into one, under Christ the head thereof." It includes, therefore, probably millions of the unborn and millions of the unconverted. Consequently,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1859 - 480 pages
...covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born ol CHAPTER XXV. Of the Church. i HE catholic or universal church, which is invisible,...spouse, the body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all3. II. The visible church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel, (not confined... | |
 | Sewall Sylvester Cutting - 1859 - 243 pages
...i. 28. 9 Lev. xviii. 5 1 Cor. vii. 2, 9. 10 Matt, vi. 18; 1 Cor. v. 1. ble, consists of the whole l number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall...spouse, the body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. 2. All persons throughout the world, professing the faith of the gospel, and obedience... | |
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The catholic or universal Church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. 
