The Methodist Ministry Defended, Or, A Reply to the Arguments in Favour of the Divine Institution, and the Uninterrupted Succession of Episcopacy: As Being Essential to a True Church and a Scriptural Ministry : as Stated in a Letter to the Author, by the Rev. Charles J. Shreve, Rector of Guysborough : in a Series of Letters, Addressed to that Reverend Gentleman |
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Page 64 - I have still refused, not only for peace sake, but because I was determined, as little as possible, to violate the established order of the national church to which I belonged.
Page 27 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God , which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
Page 64 - Lord King's account of the primitive church convinced me, many years ago, that bishops and presbyters are the same order, and consequently have the same right to ordain.
Page 24 - The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed...
Page 79 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Page 64 - So that, for some hundred miles together, there is none either to baptize or to administer the Lord's supper. Here, therefore, my scruples are at an end ; and I conceive myself at full liberty, as I violate no order, and invade no man's right, by appointing and sending labourers into the harvest.
Page 26 - But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Page 57 - THE TRUTH is, that in the NEW TESTAMENT there is no mention made of any DEGREES or DISTINCTIONS in ORDERS, but only of Deacons or Ministers, and of PRIESTS OR BISHOPS...
Page 91 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 44 - Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2.