A Second Letter to the Bishop of Bangor: Wherein His Lordship's Notions of Benediction, Absolution, and Church-communion are Prov'd to be Dectructive [sic] of Every Institution of the Christian Religion. To which is Added, a Postscript, in Answer to the Objections that Have Been Made Against His Former Letter. By William Law, M.A.W. Innys, 1717 - 107 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 22 - Authority to send others, and with a Promise that he would be with them to the End of the World.
الصفحة 11 - Ghost, &c., is as impious a Form, according to your Lordship's Doctrine, and equally injurious to the eternal Power and Godhead, as the other. For if the Grace of God can only be had from his own Hands, would it not be as innocent in the Bishop to say, Receive thou Power to sustain all Things in Being, as to say, Receive the Holy Ghost, by the Imposition of my Hands?
الصفحة 34 - Priesthood, so authorised, can no more be changed by us, than we can change the Scriptures, or make new Sacraments ; because they are all founded on the same Authority, without any Power of a Dispensation delegated to us in one Case more than another.
الصفحة 32 - Historical Evidence for the Certainty of one as the other. As to its not being mentioned in the Scripture, the Doctrine upon which it is founded, plainly made it unnecessary to mention it. Is it needful for the Scriptures to tell us, that if we take, our Bible from any false Copy, that it is not the Word of 'God ? Why then need they tell us, that if we are ordained by usurping false Pretenders to Ordination...
الصفحة 27 - Lordship may be right in despising any particular Order of Clergy; because they are but Men. Your Lordship is certainly as right, or as wrong, as he was. And now, my Lord, let the common Sence of Mankind here judge, whether, if the Clergy are to be...
الصفحة 15 - Now it is strange, that God should be offended with his own Methods, or that your Lordship should find us out a Way of pleasing him, more suitable to his Nature and Attributes, than what he has taught us in the Scriptures. I call them his own Methods ; for what else is the whole Jewish Dispensation, but a Method of God's Providence, where his Blessings and Judgments were...
الصفحة 101 - Whether an appointed order of receiving a commission from God be not necessary to be observed in order to receive a commission from him ? If the case were thus stated...
الصفحة 5 - You confer the grace of God ! Is it not impious to think that He should make our improvement in grace depend upon your ministry, or hang our salvation on any particular order of clergymen ? We know that God is just and good and true, and that all depends upon Him and ourselves, and that human benedictions are trifles. Therefore, whether you Peter, or you Philip...
الصفحة 32 - ... the word of God ? Why then need they tell us, that if we are ordained by usurping false pretenders to ordination, not deriving their authority to that end from the Apostles, that we are no priests ? Does not the thing itself speak as plain in one case as in the other ? The Scriptures are only of use to us, as they are the word of God: we cannot have this word of God, which was written so many years ago, unless we receive it from authentic copies and manuscripts. "The clergy have their commission...
الصفحة 24 - ... made them less the Ministers of God, or less necessary to the Salvation of Men ? Their personal Defects did not make them depart from the Claim of those Powers they were invested with, or desert their Ministry, but, indeed, gave St. Paul Occasion to say, We have this Treasure in earthen Vessels, (ie, this Authority committed to mere Men) that the excellency of it may be of God, and not of Men.