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THE CHURCH OF CHRIST192not upon his scholarship, but upon his pretended spiritual illumination. Hence the Roman Catholic priests do not contradict oneNeither is their teaching the fancy of a defective learning, but the result of a mental development that Rome attained in its ...
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THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD191ought to be acknowledged that the more one investigates more he loses his simple and childlike faith in it. It can not even be said that the doubt created by superficial inquiry In fact,theitWordthewill be dispelled ...
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:THE CHURCH OF CHRISTi88Of one degree Scripture says " Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved"; and of another: "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove." The first works intern ...
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THE CHURCH OF CHRIST194For they wrote things the comprehensive meaning which they did not understand. E.g., when Moses wrote about the serpent's seed, it is obvious that he did not begin to see all that terpretation. ofcontained in theis"bruising of his h ...
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THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD193eye of the understanding. He then so works upon our feeling that we begin to see ourselves in that sinner, and to feel that the truth Finally, He takes hold of the of the Scripture directly concerns us. will,causing the very power seen in the Script ...
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THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD the end in view, itto every age, nation, church,and individualbe applied in such a way that every saint shall receive atshalllastwhen195whatever portion was reserved for him in the Scripture.Hence onlyt ...
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XXXIX. The Governmentof the Church. "No mancan say that Jesusthe Lord, butGhost."Thelastworkof theHolySpirit in the—Iisby the HolyCor.xii. 3.Church has referenceto ...
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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH197invisible church, are not one, neither are they holy ; for they parlife, and are constantly deby the power of sin which internally and externally undermines their well-being." Hence the subject may not be presented as tho the spiritual, invisible, and ...
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THE CHURCH OF CHRIST198Netherlands, whose church order not only lacks such profession, but lays the supreme legislative power exclusively upon men, Christ's Kingship ismocked; that a pretender has usurped His as surely as it is written " Yet have Iwho must be removed ...
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::;THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH199He be present. Hence in the opening of consistory, there is first a petition for the Holy Spirit's presence and leadership; secondly, the confession that the members can do nothing without His presence and thirdly, a pleading of ...
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