Letter to the Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, D.D.: Touching His Conduct in Connexion with the Recent Proceedings of the Church in Lancaster, Under the Pastoral Care ; and Upon the Rights, Dignity, and Tenure of the Office of Deacon in a Congregational ChurchJ.E. Hinckley, Printers, 1832 - 136 strán (strany) |
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Strana 118 - And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch : whom they set before the Apostles ; and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Strana 120 - Tit. iii. 10. 3. But if the offence be more public at first, and of a more heinous and criminal nature, to wit, such as are condemned by the light of nature, then the church, without such gradual proceeding, is to cast out the offender from their holy communion, for the further mortifying of his sin, and the healing of his soul in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Strana 119 - For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Strana 121 - Cor. ii. 7, 8,) and upon his repentance to restore him again unto his former communion. 6. In case an elder offend incorrigibly, the matter so requiring, as the church had power to call him to office, so they have power according to order...
Strana 119 - Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Strana 125 - By way of mutual care, in taking thought for one another's welfare. 2. By way of consultation one with another, when we have occasion to require the judgment and counsel of other churches, touching any person or cause wherewith they may be better acquainted than ourselves.
Strana 121 - ... of other churches, where it may be had, directing thereto) to remove him from his office ; and being now but a member, in case he add contumacy to his sin, the church that had power to receive him into their fellowship, hath also the same power to cast him out, that they have concerning any other member.
Strana 119 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the Word and doctrine.
Strana 124 - Luke. i. 71. 5. The power granted by Christ unto the body of the church and brotherhood, is a prerogative or privilege which the church doth exercise, 1. In choosing their own officers, whether elders or deacons. 2. In admission of their own members, and therefore there is great reason they should have power to remove any from their fellowship again.
Strana 116 - And if the church have power to chuse their officers and ministers, (Rom. xvi. 17,) then, in case of manifest unworthiness and delinquency, they have power also to depose them: for to open and shut, to chuse and refuse, to constitute in office, and to remove from office, are acts belonging to the same power.