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4421 The Present Truth, vol. 9 June 1, 1893, page 163 paragraph 5
… Catholic Church in declaring some persons to be saints, and assigning others to a lower place, takes upon itself the work of judging the character of men, which …
4422 The Present Truth, vol. 9 June 1, 1893, page 176 paragraph 3
… the church. Proselyting by means of the police is peculiar to a State Church.
4423 The Present Truth, vol. 9 June 29, 1893, page 197 paragraph 9
… the Church of England compelled to attend such schools, the teaching, by members of that Church, of the articles of the Christian faith, as contained in the …
4424 The Present Truth, vol. 9 July 13, 1893, page 228 paragraph 10
… the church, the body of Christ, consisting of all who abide in Christ, and allow Christ to abide in them, not as their physical life only, but as their wisdom, and …
4425 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 10, 1893, page 295 paragraph 15
… corrupt Church. But although there are no formularies and no systematised theology peculiarly Stundist, and although the Stundism of each province differs …
4426 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 10, 1893, page 304 paragraph 4
… the Church and State, there would never have been any Roman Catholic body.
4427 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 17, 1893, page 308 paragraph 2
… great church with its forms and ceremonies, and a long array of “saints” and bishops and ecclesiastical paraphernalia, but that He is near to His creatures …
4428 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 338 paragraph 1
… the church of Christ is something painfully unnatural. There is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism,” and “by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether …
4429 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 338 paragraph 8
… the body, the church.” Colossians 1:17, 18. God wrought great power “in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in heavenly places …
4430 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 338 paragraph 9
… the church is therefore necessarily the body of Christ, but that nothing is the church unless it is the body of Christ; and nothing is the body of Christ unless …
4431 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 338 paragraph 11
… the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles …
4432 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 340 paragraph 1
… His body, the church. To the Jews He said, “How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God?” John 5:44. Through …
4433 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 340 paragraph 5
… the church, different members have different offices, each one having a work, yet while no one controls another, all agree. Indeed, it is only when some begin …
4434 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 340 paragraph 6
… the Church, and all the life of the church must be that which is received from Him. The church is useful only as each member “holding the Head, from which all the …
4435 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 340 paragraph 7
… the church of Christ no one member, no matter what his office, can despise the humblest member. “Much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble …
4436 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 342 paragraph 6
… true church is not a law-making body, but a law-abiding body. Jesus Christ is the head of the body, because He is the head of every individual man in the body. The …
4437 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 342 paragraph 7
… any body of men calling themselves the church of Christ, shall decide that certain ones are worthy of heaven, and that certain others are not, God will accept …
4438 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 344 paragraph 10
… the church for trial, as before a court, because a trial always implies a judge and a possible condemnation. But the church is for the purpose of representing …
4439 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 344 paragraph 11
… the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.” All has been done that can be done, and now “let him be.” The church has cleared itself from all complicity …
4440 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 7, 1893, page 368 paragraph 14
… the Church of England and the nonconformist bodies, on the subject of a reunion. Of course no one expects that the union could be effected without some concessions …