An original draught of the primitive Church: in answer to a discourse [by P. King] entituled, An enquiry into the constitution [&c.] of the primitive Church. By a presbyter of the Church of England [J. Slater].1717 |
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... himself calls it ( in our Author's own Quotation ) woaan ' Ennanoķa , that is , in true English , I think , a pretty numerous Church at leaft : Valefius , in his Tranflation , calls it , mag- na multitudo Fidelium , A great Multitude of ...
... himself calls it ( in our Author's own Quotation ) woaan ' Ennanoķa , that is , in true English , I think , a pretty numerous Church at leaft : Valefius , in his Tranflation , calls it , mag- na multitudo Fidelium , A great Multitude of ...
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... himself meant no fuch Church , even in this very Narrative of his , as he is here quoted for And this will require that a short Account be first given of the present Condition that holy Confeffor was then in . The Cafe was thus ; the ...
... himself meant no fuch Church , even in this very Narrative of his , as he is here quoted for And this will require that a short Account be first given of the present Condition that holy Confeffor was then in . The Cafe was thus ; the ...
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... himself or- dain , if the Neceffity of his Church requir'd it ; then I think it needs no farther Proof , that this holy Confeffor , and Father of the Church , could have no fuch Notion of a particular Church in his Time , as our learned ...
... himself or- dain , if the Neceffity of his Church requir'd it ; then I think it needs no farther Proof , that this holy Confeffor , and Father of the Church , could have no fuch Notion of a particular Church in his Time , as our learned ...
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... himself too in the very next Leaf ) which looks very like it ; for all the Chriftian Churches which were gather'd from among the Gentiles , that learned Father expreffes by a Church , in the Singular Number , ( the Expref- fion you have ...
... himself too in the very next Leaf ) which looks very like it ; for all the Chriftian Churches which were gather'd from among the Gentiles , that learned Father expreffes by a Church , in the Singular Number , ( the Expref- fion you have ...
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... himself the Care of all the Churches ; and his Commands , Cenfures , and peremptory Precepts ( fo visible in most of his Epiftles to them ) do evidently prove the fame ; and there- fore , whatsoever Afsistants they were to the A ...
... himself the Care of all the Churches ; and his Commands , Cenfures , and peremptory Precepts ( fo visible in most of his Epiftles to them ) do evidently prove the fame ; and there- fore , whatsoever Afsistants they were to the A ...
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Page 81 - And the hand of the Lord was with them ; and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
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