 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pages
...and ratify them. Hence in the censures of the church, you have that great expression, " Whatsoever ye bind or loose on earth, shall be bound or loosed in heaven." Matt. 18 : 18. And so for the word and ordinances, "All power in heaven and earth is given unto me.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1815 - 694 pages
...hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority, ecclesiastical within itself, regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is...loose on earth, shall be bound or loosed in heaven. Matt. xvi. 19, &c. Matt, xviii. 17, 18. Acts xiv. 23. Tit. i. 5. Matt, xxviii. 19, 20. Acts vi. 4.... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1805 - 558 pages
...lias received from the Lord Jesus, full power and authority, ecclesiastically within itself, regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is...any other ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever. Their churches, with some exceptions, disclaim the word independent, as a] plicable to them, and claim... | |
 | 1812 - 620 pages
...hath received from the Lord Jesus, full power and authority ecclesiastical within itself, regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ; and is...Elders are ordained in every church. Acts xiv, 23; Titus i, 5; and are therein authorized officially to administer in the word, prayer, sacraments, and... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1814 - 604 pages
...peace, hath received of the Lord Jesus foil power and authority, ecclesiastical within itself, regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is not under any other ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatever." 2. " The churches of Christ do stand in a sisterly relation to each other, being united... | |
 | 1815 - 406 pages
...peace, hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority ecclesiastical within itself regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is...of the kingdom of heaven, that, what they bind or louse on earth shall be bound or loosed in heaven, Mat. xvi, 19, and xviii, i7, 18. Elders are ordained... | |
 | 1815 - 604 pages
...peace, hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority ecclesiastical within itself regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is...other ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever. For 10 such a church -Christ hath given the keys of the kingdom of heaven, that, what they bind or loose... | |
 | John Lowell, Jedidiah Morse - 1816 - 96 pages
...peace, hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority ecclesiastical within itself regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is...jurisdiction whatsoever. For to such a church Christ 12 hath given the keys of the kingdom of heaven, that, what they bind or loose on earth shall be bound... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1816 - 764 pages
...hath received from the jLonl Jqsus full power and authority ecclesiastical within itself regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is...any other ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever. Tor to snch a church Christ i. 5, and are therein authorized officially to administer1 ?tf "ith^[ prayer,... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...your recollection ivliatsnever I have said unto you." (xiv. 26.) And again, *' whatsoever ye shall bind, or loose on earth, shall be bound or loosed in heaven:" (Matt, xviii. 18.) These promises were intended as a security both to them and to iu of their infallibility.... | |
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Every church or particular congregation of visible saints in gospelorder, being furnished with a presbytery, at least with a teaching elder, and walking together in truth and peace, hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority ecclesiastical... 
