This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...from the original establishment of it; a deviation not likely to be attended with eventual success, unless it can be supposed, that God (to whom all things are present) did not know the plan best calculated for the establishment of his church. Upon these grounds, therefore, it is concluded that the blessing originally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...from the original establishment of it; a deviation not likely to be attended with eventual success, unless it can be supposed, that God (to whom all things are present) did not know the plan best calculated for the establishment of his church. Upon these grounds, therefore, it is concluded that the blessing originally promised to the regular discharge of the evangelic ministry is confined to that discharge of it, because we have no warrant from scripture to authorise a contrary conclusion: and it is in conformity with this idea, which has prevailed in the church from the days of the Apostles down to the present times, namely, that it is the commission which secures the Divine confirmation of the ministerial act, that the sacraments in the church have been considered as the only sacraments that are dulyvadministered. It is in conformity with this idea that St. Ignatius fays, " Let that sacrament be deemed effectual and firm which is administered by the bishop, or by him to whom the bishop has committed it." Vide Guide, page 53. And it was a similar idea, it stiould seem, that your favourite Bishop Reynolds had before him when he said, " There are excellent works, which being done without the calling of God, do not edify, but disturb the body. The way for the church to prosper and flourish is, for every member to keep in his own rank and order, to remember his own measure, to act in his own sphere, to manage his particular condition and relations with spiritual wisdom and humility; the eye to do the work of an eye, the hand of an hand." VideGuide, p. 54. It has been from an unwillingness to give offence to those brethren who have departed from the church, that less has been said on this subject, of late years in particular, ihan ought have...
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