 | James Leo Garrett - 2004 - 94 pages
...impossible to please" God (Hebrews 11:6). The Church of England, in her Articles, defines a gospel church as "a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure...Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered."126 Of such "faithful men" or believers in Christ was the first church at Jerusalem composed... | |
 | Paul D. L. Avis - 2004 - 164 pages
...Articles of Religion of the Church of England speak in similar, though significantly not identical, terms: 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... | |
 | Charles W. A. Prior - 2005 - 322 pages
...church could be found wherever the Word was preached and the sacraments properly administered: 'This visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful...Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance.' The wording of the article seemed to imply not only... | |
 | 2005 - 164 pages
...Anglicans, as for Lutherans and Reformed, the visible Church is to be recognized where 'the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance' (Article XIX). It is bound to be unsatisfactory if one partner seems to say: 'I do not recognize the... | |
 | William J. La Due - 2006 - 186 pages
...definition of the church was stated in roughly the same terms as in the Lutheran and Reformed bodies: "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments are duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, and all those things... | |
 | Charles J. Colton - 2006 - 221 pages
...justification, the necessity of faith, and the place of good works. XIII-XXII Defines the visible Church as "a congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments duly administered." Gives careful attention to both the meaning and mode... | |
 | Robert David Redmile - 2006 - 285 pages
...WITNESS OF ANGLICAN FORMULARIES Article XX of the Church, The 1562 Thirty-nine Articles of Religion. "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 ministered according to Christ's... | |
 | S. T. Kimbrough - 2007 - 312 pages
...accepted the premise of Article XIX of the Articles of Religion of the Church of England, which stated: "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered according to Christ's ordinances in all those things... | |
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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 ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same. 
