The Search for the Truth of God: The New Testament Answer in Churches of God |
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Page 38 - And as they went on their way through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, which had been ordained of the apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
Page 31 - BELOVED, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
Page 41 - But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered ; and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
Page 43 - Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 43 - to abound more and more in knowledge " (Phil. i. 9) ; to be " filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding
Page 43 - If any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Churches of God
Page 32 - Church, the bishops are the divinely ordained guardians of " the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints," the successors of the apostles, invested with august and awful powers as the rulers of the Church.
Page 12 - They too require that satisfaction for them should be offered to God, and this satisfaction must be penitence, penance, and good works.1 He might have adopted the language of Tertullian about baptism : " In this way, without pomp, with no novelty of preparation, without cost, a man descends into the water, and being immersed, with the utterance of a few words, rises up out of it, scarcely, if at all, cleaner in body, but — incredible consequence — the possessor of eternal life.
Page 18 - We ought to receive all whom Christ has received, irrespective of the measure of grace or knowledge which they have attained unto...
Page 19 - ... little particulars into which, notwithstanding all their grace and faithfulness, their godliness and honesty - they have fallen. Nor shall I ever feel separation from the good for the sake of the evil, to be my way of witnessing against it, till I see infinitely clearer than I do now, that it is God's. I naturally unite fixedly with those in whom I see and feel most of the life and power of God. But I am as free to visit other churches, where I see much of disorder, as to visit the houses of...