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. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... /jmtos 'Ayiov, Titus iii. 5, he begins, "These words, as "it is easy to conceive upon the first hearing, are "spoken of Baptism."--Works, folio, p. 62. b The writers whom we have hitherto quoted are all subsequent to the Reformation. Since they wrote after the time when the Liturgy and Articles were published ...
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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. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... /jmtos 'Ayiov, Titus iii. 5, he begins, "These words, as "it is easy to conceive upon the first hearing, are "spoken of Baptism."--Works, folio, p. 62. b The writers whom we have hitherto quoted are all subsequent to the Reformation. Since they wrote after the time when the Liturgy and Articles were published, they are the most fair expositors of the sense of what was published. In this view, they are to be preferred to the first reformers themselves: for it is not every thing which those reformers wrote, or maintained, that passed into the formularies of the Church. They made some changes in their separate opinions; and it is not to be believed that ultimately they were in absolute agreement, on every single point, with each other. But that which, with joint consent, and by authority, they framed and published as the standard of our national faith, that is the thing we have to examine. And since a text must be written and fixed, before it can be expounded, we consider the most severe and exact of the divines, who wrote with the text of the Church doctrine before them, immediately after the final promulgation of the Liturgy and Articles, and who were entirely in the confidence of the cause, (such were Jewel and Hooker, the one the defender of it against those whom we had left, the other those who left us), as the most distinct and best informed b The object of the discourse is to shew that the dvrlaroixov, or thing signified by water in Baptism, is the Holy Spirit, and not the Blood of Christ. Expositors of that which had previously been promulgated. The promulgation to which we refer was that made at the beginning of Elizabeth's reign by the Act of Uniformity, when the Book of Common Prayer was set forth, revised, and improved, including the...
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