...text the following, from the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, chap. xxx. 1, 2. t; The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate. To these officers the keys of the hingdom of heaven...

...to take order for the preservation of purity, peace, and unity in the church, yet ' the Lord Jesus, as king and head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of church officers distinct from the civil magistrate,' which government is ministerial, not lordly, and...

...as is declared in the Confession of Faith of this national established church — ' The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of church officers distinct from the civil magistrate;' and that in all matters touching the doctrine,...

...counterpart obligations, and perform the equivalent duties. Case, page 47, you thus proceed, "The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers distinct from the civil magistrate," for which quotation you refer to the twenty-third...

...Congregationalism can be so merged. Chnp. xxx. sec. 1, 2 — read as follows : — " ' I. The Lord Jesus as king and head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand O/"CHORCH OFFICERS, distinct from the civil magistracy. " 'II. To these officers the keys of the kingdom...

...and to grant Absolution ! Here is the language of their Confession : — "The Lord Jesus, as king aad head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of church officers, distinct from the Civil Magistrate. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven...

...drink of that cup." 1 Cor. xi. 28. CHAPTER XXX. OP CHURCH CENSURES. SECTION I. — The Lord Jesus, as king and head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.1 ' I»a. ii. 6, 7. ITim. T. 17. 1 Thew. v. 12....

...Erastians, who dissented from the grand proposition of the Assembly, — That the Lord Jesus, as Xing + + Church officers, distinct from the Civil Magistrate ; and whose leading principle was, that all Church...

...e. xx. s. 2, 4, with the passages of Scripture there quoted at length.) П. ГЬс Lord Jesus Christ as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a Government in the hands of (or to be administered by) Church officers, distinct, on the one hand, from the civil magistrate,...

...sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven ;" even as we believe that " the t Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government in the hands of church officers, distinct from the Civil Magistrate ;" in short, while we assent to the truth,...