 | 1842 - 740 pages
...In another preface, that to the service to the Ordering of Deacons, we are told, ' It is evident to all men diligently reading the Holy Scripture and...been these orders of ministers in Christ's church.' In the twentyfourth Article, the language used is this :— ' It is a tiling plainly repugnant to the... | |
 | Alonzo Bowen Chapin - 1842 - 418 pages
...send Thy grace upon him." Preface to the Ordinal. — " It is evident unto all men, diligently reading holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the...CHRIST'S Church — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons." BlSHOPS SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER CLERGY. This follows from the above, for, if GOD has " appointed divers... | |
 | Church of England, William Keeling - 1842 - 542 pages
...men, diligently reading holy Scripture, and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there hath been these orders of Ministers in Christ's Church...Deacons : which offices were evermore had in such reverent estimation, that no man by his own private authority might presume to execute any of them,... | |
 | 1897 - 478 pages
...Prayer Book (p. 5o9) opens with these weighty words: "It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the...Christ's Church — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons." This three-fold Ministry was universal until Reformation days. Perhaps there was a type of it in (1)the... | |
 | Marion J. Hatchett - 1995 - 694 pages
...men, diligently reading Holy Scripture, and ancient authors, that from the apostles' time there hath been these orders of ministers in Christ's church:...and deacons, which offices were evermore had in such reverent estimation that no man by his own private authority might presume to execute any of them except... | |
 | Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 372 pages
...dig the doctrines of Catholicism. 'It is evident unto all men diligently reading the Holy Scriptures and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time...in Christ's Church; Bishops, Priests, and Deacons . . .' Thus the Preface to the ordination services. Other doctrines that might be extracted from the... | |
 | Church of England. Archbishops' Group on the Episcopate - 1990 - 380 pages
...which says that it is apparent 'unto all men diligently reading the Holy Scripture and ancient Authors, from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders...in Christ's Church: Bishops, Priests and Deacons'. But we can say confidently that a ministry of personal oversight clearly emerged as the young Church... | |
 | Michael Watts - 1993 - 212 pages
...episcopal oversight which had developed in Western Christendom. In its Ordinal, it robustly stated that "from the Apostles' time there have been these...Ministers in Christ's church: Bishops, Priests and Deacons"2. It puts great store by its claim to historical continuity within the Catholic tradition,... | |
 | Stanley E. Porter - 1996 - 322 pages
...from the Book of Common Prayer: It is evident to all men diligently reading Holy Scripture and the ancient authors, that from the apostles' time there...and Deacons. Which offices were evermore had in such reverent estimation that no man might presume to execute any of them except he were first called, tried,... | |
 | Christine Hall, Robert Hannaford - 1996 - 180 pages
...Ordinal attached to the Book of Common Prayer, that 'it is evident unto all men diligently reading holy Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the...in Christ's Church: Bishops, Priests, and Deacons', while in Article XXV it includes Orders as one of those 'commonly called Sacraments [which] are not... | |
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It is evident unto all men, diligently reading holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church, — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 
