# A church dictionary

Author: Hook, Walter Farquhar, 1798-1875

Genre: Episcopal Church -- Dictionaries

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74523

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+church+dictionary+Hook&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 child and its parents, to mind them of this vow, and keep the memory of this new birth, by giving the child new and spiritual relations of godfathers and godmothers. Now to these the priest next addresseth, 1. in _the Gospel_ (Mark x. 13–16); which shows how the Jews, believing that CHRIST’S blessing would be very beneficial to young children, brought them to him in their arms, and when the disciples checked them, CHRIS...

## Chapters

- [xi. 25); thus pointedly referring to two of its principal features,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/11/index.md)
- [cxviii. 24,) for the Fathers unanimously expound that passage of this](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/7/index.md)
- [iii. 6, 14, in which place the word ἡ Παλαιὰ Διαθήκη and ἡ Καινὴ](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/18/index.md)
- [viii. 2); and the primitive Christians had sponsors to engage for such](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/1/index.md)
- [book v. sect. 29.) The Preface to the Book of Common Prayer speaks first](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/2/index.md)
- [vi. 2); (yet the Papists omit this apostolical ceremony, and use the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/6/index.md)
- [xi. 18,) our blessed LORD represents Satan to us as a monarch, who has](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/15/index.md)
- [cxviii. 19); whereupon the masons fall to work to break down the wall](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/9/index.md)
- [i. 7); but this doctrine would persuade us, there are some sins which](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/12/index.md)
- [xi. 25,) proved to the Sadducees from the Old Testament; since he who](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/14/index.md)
- [chapter 6. From chapter 25 to the end of the book, there is little that](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/10/index.md)
- [civil. The ecclesiastical court pronounced upon the right, declared what](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/8/index.md)
- [c. 8, it is enacted, that after the demise of her Majesty Queen Anne,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/17/index.md)
- [c. 99, and that act also was repealed, and the whole question resettled,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Act 46, Parl. 3, Act 106, Parl. 7, Act 24, Parl. 11, King James VI., do](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/4/index.md)
- [c. 14, an act passed to restore this order of men under the name of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/16/index.md)
- [cxxiv. 7,) and praising GOD for bringing these persons into so blessed a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Act 18, Parl. 16, King James VI.; as rebellers and gainstanders of our](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-church-dictionary-74523/chapters/3/index.md)