...believe that the existence of this mystery is truly indicated by external signs, the chief of which are the preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments.) E. From the above statements (AD), we conclude. 1. The members of the Church are bound together by...

...opinions and traditions, and is bound only by the word of God. The notes of the Church (notae ecclesiae) are the preaching of the word and the administration of the sacraments. In the Reformed Confessions administration of Christian discipline is generally added as a third note....

...Csesar that form of government and order which was his peculiar appanage. It claimed for itself only the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments of Christ, as the things of God, under a dispensation of divine love through a private and voluntary association...

...eternal salvation; and is called the Old Testament. VI. Under the gospel, when Christ the substance was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is...sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper; which, though fewer in number, and administered with more simplicity and less outward glory, yet in them it...

...things belonging to it, therein bequeathed. "VI. Under the Gospel, when Christ, the substance, was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is...sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper: which, though fewer in number, and administered with more simplicity, and less outward glory, yet, in them,...

...disciplines such as worship, the study of Scripture, and prayer. In most of Christendom the proclamation of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper are recognized as ways through which spirituality is nurtured. However, because God bestows...

...transformed life. A program of discipline: Calvin accepted Luther's first three marks of the church: the preaching of the word and the administration of the sacraments of baptism and Eucharist. But "discipline," too, became an important identifying feature of the Reformed Churches,...

...function of this ordained ministry was to represent the believers publicly, through preaching and teaching the Word and the administration of the sacraments of baptism and the eucharist.19 It is this functional character of the ministry that differentiates the Lutheran understanding...

...Christ the substance was exhibited, the same covenant of grace was, and still is to be, administered in the preaching of the Word, and the administration of the sacraments of Baptism, and the Lord's Supper; in which grace and salvation are held forth in more fullness, evidence, and efficacy to all...

...built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. 8 For Calvin the essential marks of the church are the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments; these alone reveal the saving work of Christ completely. Bucer and Knox added discipline as a third...