...perform the equivalent duties. Case, page 47, you thus proceed, "The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government in the...Church officers distinct from the civil magistrate," for which quotation you refer to the twenty-third chap, and third section of the Confession of Faith;...

...the following most explicit announcement : — " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, has therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate." The means by which the Church officers are to enforce the authority of their government are entirely...

...Absolution ! Here is the language of their Confession : — "The Lord Jesus, as king aad head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the...church officers, distinct from the Civil Magistrate. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed, by virtue whereof they have power...

...re-stating the proposition we have now established upon an impregnable and immovable foundation, viz., the Lord Jesus Christ, as King and Head of the Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of Church officers, distinct on the one hand from the civil magistrate, and on the other from...

...Cor. xi. 28. CHAPTER XXX. OP CHURCH CENSURES. SECTION I. — The Lord Jesus, as king and head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.1 ' I»a. ii. 6, 7. ITim. T. 17. 1 Thew. v. 12. Acl. xx. 17,18. Hob. liii. 7, 17, S4. lCor.xii.28....

...words of the Confession of Faith, they hold that "The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of the Church, has power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. The position of the Christian members of the Anglican Church is certainly a very degrading one at present....

...crime." ever give and inculcate implicit obedience to their decisions in such matters, do resolve, that, as is declared in the Confession of Faith of...Jesus Christ, as King and Head of the Church, hath ' O therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate...

...doctors, and elders." In the Westminster Confession of Faith, it is thus announced, — " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of the Church, hath, therein, appointed...Church officers, distinct from the Civil Magistrate. Rutherford asserts — " The King, as king, hath not a nomothetick or legislative power to make laws,...

...have attracted so much attention, and led to such important consequences. The doctrine is this:— " The Lord Jesus Christ, as King and Head of the Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of Churchofficers distinct from the civil magistrate." And his Grace's commentary upon it is...

...preservation of purity, peace, and unity in the Church, yet " The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the...Church officers distinct from the civil magistrate :"\ which government is ministerial, not lordly, and to be exercised in consonance with the laws of...