 | S. T. Kimbrough - 2007 - 312 pages
...Thirty-nine Articles: 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...those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.4 This definition combines, to some extent, a view of what the Church is with what the Church... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 2007 - 344 pages
...fellowship with such disdain. The Reformers defined the Church as " a congregation of faithful men in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered " ; 3 and 1 P. 99, ante. " Article xxxi. ' Article xix. judging the Greek and Roman Churches... | |
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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. 
