This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... ately and entirely from the King, who is the legal head of the church, and has and ought to have the sole authority to appoint those who are to admit ministers into it, and to superintend their conduct in the discharge os their facred function. Considered as an institution for the religious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... ately and entirely from the King, who is the legal head of the church, and has and ought to have the sole authority to appoint those who are to admit ministers into it, and to superintend their conduct in the discharge os their facred function. Considered as an institution for the religious instruction of the whole people, and for the due and proper adoration of the Supreme Being, the church of England is by far the most excellent in Christendom, for there is not in. our priesthood that distinction of regular and parochial clergy, which excites jealousy and discontent in other countries, but the whole body have the fame avocations, and are all inducted into their profession in the fame manner; and nothing can be better divised for preventing the admission of unfit or unqualified teachers, than the year of probation required of a deacon, before he receives priests orders, without which he is incapable of being benefited, or performing the whole service of a parochial church. T he ordination and superintendence of both priests and deacons is most fitly intrusted to the bilhops, who must themselves have pasted through and performed the duties of the inferior orders of deacons and priests, before they arrived at their high cBstinction, and by so doing become the better able to judge of the qualifications' of the candidates for orders, and of the propriety with which they Exercise their ' functions, Highly, however, as I approve, and' zealously as I am attached to episcopacy, as an ecclesiastical constitution, t cannot admit the claims of the bishops to confer the Holy Ghost upon, or to impower those they orda'rt priests, to forgive fins; but, as I have already animadverted freely upon those claims, in a letter I some time since privately...
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Add this copy of The Revealed Will of God, the Sufficient Rule of Men: to cart. $48.36, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
