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Page 221 - Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Page 62 - She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework : the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. 16 With joy and gladness shall they be brought, and shall enter into the King's palace. 17 Instead of thy fathers, thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.
Page 328 - Carthage speaks of no other ceremony, but the Bishop's putting the Bible into his hands in the presence of the people, with these words, "Take this book and be thou a reader of the word of God...
Page 35 - Having now dismissed the catechumens, says he, we have retained you only to be our hearers, because, beside those things which belong to all Christians in common, we are now to discourse more particularly of the heavenly mysteries, or sacraments ; which none are qualified to hear, but such as by God's gift are made partakers of them.
Page 239 - The author of the Constitutions" speaks also of imposition of hands and prayer, but no more. From which we may reasonably conclude, that the words which the Roman Church makes to be the most necessary and essential part of a priest's ordination, viz. " Receive thou power to offer sacrifice to God, and to celebrate mass both for the living and the dead," were not in any of the ancient forms of consecration.
Page 101 - Regula quidem fidei una omnino est, sola immobilis et irreformabilis, credendi scilicet in unicum Deum omnipotentem, mundi conditorem, et filium ejus Jesum Christum, natum ex virgine Maria, crucifixum sub Pontio Pilato, tertia die resuscitatum a mortals, receptum in coelis, sedentem nunc ad dexteram patris, venturum judicare vivos et mortuos per carnis etiam resurrectionem.
Page 247 - Church' is not given." (Traliians, II 2.3; III 1, p. 215.) 3. "Be zealous to do all things in harmony with God, with the bishop presiding in the place of God and the presbyters in the place of the Council of the Apostles, and the deacons, who are most dear to me, entrusted with the service of Jesus Christ.
Page 335 - See that thou believe in thy heart what thou singest with thy mouth, and approve in thy works what thou believest in thy heart.
Page 61 - ... respects inferior to them ; therefore they thought it NOT DECENT to assume to themselves the name of Apostles ; but dividing the names, they left to Presbyters the name of the Presbytery, and they themselves were called Bishops.
Page 177 - For here the primacy was not fixed, as in other places, to the civil metropolis, but always went along with the oldest bishop of the province, who succeeded to this dignity by virtue of his seniority, whatever place he lived in. In other parts of the world, the bishop of the civil metropolis was comInr cadem collegia singulis in notitiam perfórenles, ab liis I'Joque fratres neutros cum Uteri* dirigendos egse mandavimi».