...are present at the solemnity. All things being now so done that the sacrament may be "duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things...that of necessity are requisite to the same;" the communicants unite in singing a HITMN, or part of a hymn, that by the soothing influence of devotional...

...world by the preaching of the Gospel." By a true church, we mean " A congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered, according to Christ's ordinance." And as the leading idea of a church is the being called,...

...ministered (ie the Baptism with water and invocation of the Trinity, and the Supper in both kinds), kewise from the current belief of the Jewish people, as the same is expressed by th for the same," there is a true church : worded, as it seems, expressly to stop the mouths of her own...

...true word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered according to Christ's ordinances, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same," Acts ix. 31. Gal. i. 2, 22. 1 Cor. xiv. 34. Acts xx. 17. Col. iv. 15. — 5. The word is now used also...

...declared the truth, by defining " the visible church of Christ to be a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and...things that of necessity are requisite to the same ;" — yet the world, in general, looketh upon the church as a corporation of priests set apart to...

...preached,"—viz. the apostles' doctrine and fellowship we have explained, "and the sacraments be duly ministered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same," that is, 1 Some Protestant divines are afraid to admit " the breaking of bread" here mentioned to be...

...faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same." These definitions, explained by the other Articles as they were intended to be, sufficiently mark the...

...1571. The nineteenth of these defines the visible church of Christ as " a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to...

...true word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered according to Christ's ordinances, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same," Acts ix. 31 ; xx. 17 ; Gal. i. 2, 22 ; 1 Cor. xiv. 34 ; Col. iv. 15. The word is now also used to denote...

...whereby man must be saved.] XIX. OF THE CHURCH The visible Church is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly minis tered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to...