The Church of Christ: Its Constitution and Order; a Manual for the Instruction of Families, Sabbath-schools, and Bible Classes

Front Cover
Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1864 - Presbyterian Church - 144 pages
 

Contents

I
11
II
14
III
18
IV
21
V
27
VI
29
VII
32
VIII
36
XVI
65
XVII
69
XVIII
74
XIX
76
XX
83
XXI
86
XXII
92
XXIII
96

IX
37
X
43
XI
46
XII
50
XIII
56
XIV
59
XV
63
XXIV
101
XXV
107
XXVI
115
XXVII
121
XXVIII
127
XXIX
131
XXX
133

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 22 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 99 - Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's.
Page 101 - The Lord's supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, 'his death is showed forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.
Page 129 - Religion,' that they may be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh them a reason of the hope that is in them, with meekness and fear.
Page 135 - For wherever we find the word of God purely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ; there, it is not to be doubted, is a Church of God...
Page 17 - That, according to our standards, "the visible Church consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion, together with their children...
Page 134 - ... to adult years, are willing to submit to the discipline of the church, and are found orthodox in their judgments, and without scandal in their lives. They who are willing, in that whereto they have already attained, to walk by the same rule, and mind the same thing, ie peaceably and orderly, according to what they have received, may expect that though they are, at the present, in some things otherwise minded, that God shall even reveal this unto them in his own time and way. The controversy mentioned...
Page 105 - The first day of the week, which is the Lord's day, is wholly to be dedicated to the service of God, and therefore we are bound therein to rest from our common and daily business, and to bestow that leisure upon holy exercises, both public and private.
Page 50 - At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, * ' when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this LAW before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 35 - The entrance of the High Priest once a year into the Holy of Holies (Lev.

Bibliographic information