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as were baptized, and since children cannot make a covenant themselves, it is charity to appoint (as the laws of men do) others to do it for them till they be of age; and this gives security to the Church, the child shall not be an apostate; provides a monitor both for the chi...
as were baptized, and since children cannot make a covenant themselves, it is charity to appoint (as the laws of men do) others to do it for them till they be of age; and this g...
2. book v. sect. 29.) The Preface to the Book of Common Prayer speaks firstof _common prayer_, viz. the offices intended for the common and periodical use of _all_ at stated times; next, the administration of the sacraments; next, of _other_ rites and...
3. Act 18, Parl. 16, King James VI.; as rebellers and gainstanders of ourSovereign Lord’s authority, Act 47, Parl. 3, King James VI.; and as idolaters, Act 104, Parl. 7, King James VI. But also in particular, by and attour the Confession of Faith, do...
4. Act 46, Parl. 3, Act 106, Parl. 7, Act 24, Parl. 11, King James VI., docondemn all baptism conform to the Pope’s kirk, and the idolatry of the mass; and ordains all sayers, wilful hearers, and concealers of the mass, the maintainers and resetters o...
5. cxxiv. 7,) and praising GOD for bringing these persons into so blessed acondition. (Psal. cxiii. 2.) Finally, desiring him to hear the prayers now to be made for them. Fourthly, there is a larger form of prayer made by the bishop, wherein he first a...
6. vi. 2); (yet the Papists omit this apostolical ceremony, and use theanointing with chrism, which came later into the Church). The bishop also gives a solemn blessing to every one, desiring GOD to defend that person with his heavenly grace, from...
7. cxviii. 24,) for the Fathers unanimously expound that passage of thisday, and therefore with them, as with us, that psalm was always part of the office of the day. For the antiquity of the observation of this day innumerable authors might be prod...
8. civil. The ecclesiastical court pronounced upon the right, declared whatThis method lasted till after the year 800. From this time the jurisdiction of the Western bishops over heretics was enlarged, and they had now authority both to convict and pun...
9. cxviii. 19); whereupon the masons fall to work to break down the wallthat stopped the gate; which done, the pope kneels down before it, whilst the penitentiaries of St. Peter wash him with holy water, and then taking up the cross, he begins to si...
10. chapter 6. From chapter 25 to the end of the book, there is little thatdoes not relate to the ark, and other local and temporary particulars, except chapters 32, 33, 34, which are accordingly read. Chapters 35 and 40 are retained in the Scottish ca...
11. xi. 25); thus pointedly referring to two of its principal features,couched too in the same words. The apostle St. Peter seems to make the same allusion when he says, “If ye call on the FATHER,” &c. (1 Pet. i. 17.)
12. i. 7); but this doctrine would persuade us, there are some sins whichare to be purged away by the prayers and good works of others. To name no more, the Scripture saith, “He that believeth shall not come into condemnation, but pass from death to...
13. c. 99, and that act also was repealed, and the whole question resettled,By the 25 _Hen._ VIII. c. 16. Whereas by the statute of the 21 Hen. VIII. c. 13, it was ordained, that certain honourable persons, as well spiritual as temporal, shall have chap...
14. xi. 25,) proved to the Sadducees from the Old Testament; since he whowas then the GOD of their fathers “is not the GOD of the dead, but of the living.” (Matt. xxii. 32.) St. Paul, too, confirms the doctrine by most powerful reasoning; declaring,...
15. xi. 18,) our blessed LORD represents Satan to us as a monarch, who hasother subordinate devils obedient to him. Beelzebub is, as it were, their king. “If Beelzebub,” says he, “drives out devils, his kingdom is divided against itself; he labours fo...
16. c. 14, an act passed to restore this order of men under the name of_suffragan bishops_. The preamble recites, that good laws had been made for electing and consecrating archbishops and bishops, but no provision was made for suffragans, which ha...
17. c. 8, it is enacted, that after the demise of her Majesty Queen Anne,the sovereign next succeeding, and so for ever afterwards every king or queen succeeding to the royal government of the kingdom of Great Britain, at his or her coronation, shall...
18. iii. 6, 14, in which place the word ἡ Παλαιὰ Διαθήκη and ἡ ΚαινὴΔιαθήκη, are by the old Latin writers rendered _Antiquum Testamentum_ and _Novum Testamentum_. Although the appellation of New Testament is not given by Divine command to the wr...