On the Church and the Establishment: Two Plain Sermons

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John Turrill, 1834 - 75 pages
 

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Page 58 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed ? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard ? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent ? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things ! But they have not all obeyed the gospel ; for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Page 48 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews ; but now my kingdom is not from hence.
Page 45 - England, but that, in these realms, the king is, as in times past he was, over all persons, and in all causes, ecclesiastical as well as civil, in these his dominions, supreme.
Page 30 - Talemnobis hierarchiam exhibeant," &c. " Let them give us such an hierarchy, in which bishops may be so above the rest, as they refuse not to be under CHRIST, and depend upon Him as their only head; that they maintain a brotherly society, &c.
Page 64 - ... springs up in the village. Still harmony is not restored. The rival clergymen attack each other from the pulpit; newspapers are enlisted on either side ; and religious warfare is waged with the bitterness, if not the learning which has distinguished the controversies of abler polemics.
Page 31 - God's mercy, had been qualified, if those papers of his proposals had been discovered unto the Queen's Majesty during John Calvin's life.
Page 21 - The prelates who at the present time rule the churches of these realms, were validly ordained by others, who by means of an UNBROKEN SPIRITUAL descent of ordination, derived their mission from the apostles and from our Lord.
Page 31 - NOT upon several accounts, partly fearing the other princes of the Roman Catholic faith would have joined with the Emperor and the rest of the Popish Bishops to have depressed the same; partly, being newly-reformed and not settled, they had not sufficient wealth to support Episcopacy by reason of their daily persecutions.
Page 20 - Britain sat in some of the earliest councils : and the Prelates, who at this present time rule the Churches of these realms, Were validly ordained by others, who, by means of an unbroken spiritual descent of ordination, derived their mission from the Apostles and from our Lord. This continual descent is evident to every one who chooses to investigate it. Let him read the catalogues of our Bishops ascending up to the most remote period. Our ordinations descend in a direct unbroken...
Page 30 - Let them give us such an hierarchy, in which Bishops may be so above the rest as they refuse not to be under Christ, and depend upon him as their only head, that they 'maintain a brotherly society, &c. If there be any that do not behave themselves with all reverence and obedience towards them, there is no anathema, but I confess them worthy of it.

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