...includes a little more than the apostle has expressed.) " Of the Church. " The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure...preached, and the sacraments be duly administered." It may be observed, that at the same time our thirty-nine articles were compiled and published, a Latin...

...place, it is here said, ' The visible church is a congregation of faithful men, wherein the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered according to God's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.' So that though there...

...the one catholic church — or, as our Twentieth Article expresses it, each " visible church — is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure...duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same." Now we cannot but infer, from the...

...defining " the visible church of Christ to be a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same ;" — yet the world, in general, looketh...

...of all churches." — Trent. Profest. Art. xi. Church of England. " The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure...duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same. " As the church of Jerusalem, Alexandria,...

...Christ," says the nineteenth Article, " is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same." And the progress of these vital and...

...article? "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same." — How, then, am I to believe, as...

...conveyed than in the inimitable language of the Church of England : — " The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men in which the pure word...sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordination,"100 and, therefore, the only purpose for which they are so congregated is, that those ministrations...

...man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." XIX. OF THE CHURCH. The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure...word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to...

...and that all those churches, and those churches only, are members of the visible church of Christ, " in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the...duly administered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that, of necessity, are requisite to the same." (Article 19.) " This article,"...