The Naked Truth

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Chatto & Windus, 1919 - 122 páginas

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Página 89 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Página 21 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Página 5 - For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Página 72 - ... by degrees crept into the church ministration and became a reputed spiritual order, and a necessary degree and step to the priesthood, of which I can find nothing in Scripture and the original institution, not a word relating to any thing but the ordering of alms for the poor. And the first I find of their officiating in spiritual matters, is in Justin Martyr, who lived in the second century.
Página 69 - And I hope my readers will see what weak proofs are brought for this distinction and superiority of order — no scripture, no primitive general council, no general consent of primitive doctors and fathers, no, not one primitive father of note speaking particularly and home to our purpose ; only a touch of Epiphanius and St.
Página viii - A Modest Survey of the most considerable Things, in a Discourse lately published, entitled,
Página 72 - Having thus stated and united the two pretended and distinct orders of episcopacy and presbytery. I now proceed to the third pretended spiritual order, that of deaconship. Whether this of deaconship be properly to be called an order or an office, I will not dispute ; but certainly no spiritual order, for their office was to serve tables, as the scripture phrases it, which in plain English, is nothing else but overseers of the poor, to distribute justly and discreetly the alms of the faithful ; which...
Página 47 - The Scripture no where expresses any distinction of order among the elders. We find there but two orders mentioned, bishops and deacons. The Scripture distinguisheth not the order of bishops and priests; for there we find but one kind of ordination, then certainly but one order; for two distinct orders cannot be conferred in the same instant, by the same words, by the same actions.

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