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4521 William Miller’s Apology and Defence, August 1, p. 27.1 (William Miller)
… to church government and doctrine. In all the essential doctrines of the Bible, as they have been held by the pious of the church in all ages, were given to the …
4522 The Two Adams, p. 14.2 (Thomas Motherwell Preble)
… the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first born from the dead .” ( Colossians 1:18 .) Jesus Christ, “is the faithful witness, and the first begotten from the …
4523 The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, vol. 73 April 7, 1896, page 218 paragraph 4
… own body,-the church,-by the power of the Holy Spirit, by his presence in the church as the Comforter; and not only in the church as a whole, but in each individual …
4524 “The Daily”, p. 20.3 (William Warren Prescott)
… apostolic church” lies in this-that there is on earth a representative of our absent Lord, or a something divinely interposed between the soul and God, or a …
4525 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 16.2 (William Warren Prescott)
… his body the church; Christ as giving to God all that God required from man. Christ as bringing to man all that man required from God; Christ as seen in this dispensation …
4526 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 71.10 (William Warren Prescott)
… early church and in all subsequent ages. The force of the evidence for the empty grave and the disappearance of the body is clearly seen by, the explanations …
4527 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 78.11 (William Warren Prescott)
… . the body or out of the body he knew not, to the ‘third heaven,’ to hear words impossible to be uttered to men on earth, was this ascent of Christ in the body in which …
4528 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 83.5 (William Warren Prescott)
… the church, He is the sole and absolute link between God and humanity. Nothing short of his personality would suffice as a medium of reconciliation between …
4529 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 135.4 (William Warren Prescott)
… Testament church has the coming of the Lord in view. All the lines of her activity and experience lead to this event. The sanctification of the disciple is …
4530 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 177.6 (William Warren Prescott)
“In the place of Christ’s visible, bodily, local, limited presence is now substituted an invisible but universal presence, in and with his body mystical. [the church], through his Holy Spirit.”
4531 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 189.2 (William Warren Prescott)
“The great office of the Spirit in the present economy is to communicate Christ to his church which is his body. And what is so truly essential of Christ as holiness? In him is no sin; whosoever abides in him sins not.”
4532 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.3 (William Warren Prescott)
3. Through this impartation of the Holy Spirit who ministers the life of Christ to his followers, the church became the body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 1:22, 23; Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 5:23 .
4533 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.5 (William Warren Prescott)
5. The fact that the husband “that loves his own wife loves himself,” and that “no man ever hated his own flesh,” is used to show the closeness of the union between Christ and his body, the church. Ephesians 5:28-30, ARV.
4534 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.6 (William Warren Prescott)
6. The growth of the body, the church, is dependent upon this union with Christ, the Head. Ephesians 4:15, 16 .
4535 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.7 (William Warren Prescott)
7. So complete is the identification of Christ with the church, his body, that the church bears his name. 1 Corinthians 12:12 .
4536 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.8 (William Warren Prescott)
8. When Christ dwells in his body, the church, by the Holy Spirit, the decisions made concerning sin and righteousness are accepted in heaven. John 20:22, 23; Matthew 16:19; 18:15-18 .
4537 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 218.9 (William Warren Prescott)
… the church, which is his body and fullness, is also called ‘the Christ.’ ‘For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many …
4538 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 219.1 (William Warren Prescott)
“Christ has made provision that his church shall be a transformed body, illumined with the light of heaven, possessing the glory of Immanuel.”- Testimonies for the Church 8:19 .
4539 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 219.2 (William Warren Prescott)
… , the church ‘to be head over all things.’ He is supreme in the church as well as in the rest of the universe; and the church is ‘his body,’ in which all the wealth and the …
4540 The Doctrine of Christ, p. 219.3 (William Warren Prescott)
… the body of his church. While that divine body survives and must, multitudes of churches have so shut out the Spirit from rule and authority and supremacy …