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5041 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 March 10, 1890, page 91 paragraph 133
… “the church” is declared to be the body of Christ. In one place Paul says of Christ that “he is the head of the body, the church” ( Colossians 1:18 ); and again he says that …
5042 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 March 10, 1890, page 151 paragraph 2
… the church of Christ. And so, likewise, the profession of religion by the State constitutes a State church. This is all the union of Church and State that has …
5043 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 March 17, 1890, page 155 paragraph 29
… his church different gifts, which are likened to different members, or parts of the human body. (See 1 Corinthians 12 .) As each part of the body is mutually dependent …
5044 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 July 28, 1890, page 420 paragraph 1
… the church of Christ to be one body and which rebuke the tendency to schisms in the church, and then briefly reviews church history. Coming to our own country …
5045 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 July 28, 1890, page 420 paragraph 2
… bodies; the willingness of each sect to surrender and totally abandon everything that stands in the way of recovering the lost unity of the church, although …
5046 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 July 28, 1890, page 420 paragraph 5
… church is not divided. “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.” Ephesians 4:4. The true members of Christ’s body are …
5047 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 July 28, 1890, page 426 paragraph 2
… churches into one general church, working for the ends proposed, some of which directly involve legislation, would be nothing less than a State church; and …
5048 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 August 18, 1890, page 443 paragraph 18
… the body; and whatever the head shares, the body shares with it. Where the head goes, the body goes. The members of the church are joint heirs with Christ. Now Christ …
5049 The Signs of the Times, vol. 17 January 19, 1891, page 19 paragraph 10
… the body, the church, and who believe that the true body of Christ will have within it all the power of its divine Head, wish to acknowledge the absence of that …
5050 The Signs of the Times, vol. 17 February 2, 1891, page 26 paragraph 7
… his body is being joined to his church, for the church is the body of Christ. See Ephesians 1:22, 23; Colossians 1:18. And since it is by his Spirit that this union …
5051 The Signs of the Times, vol. 17 April 6, 1891, page 108 paragraph 3
… the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.” Therefore everything is in Christ. In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge …
5052 The Signs of the Times, vol. 17 July 6, 1891, page 171 paragraph 39
… of churches whose life was as dear to them as their own? All the religious endowments of the country, all the prestige of State connection, not in Wales only …
5053 The Signs of the Times, vol. 17 July 6, 1891, page 171 paragraph 41
… entire body of citizens, as a body, while religion is solely a matter between an individual and God. But when men fail to distinguish between things that differ …
5054 The Signs of the Times, vol. 17 July 6, 1891, page 171 paragraph 45
… to church members and ministers engaging in politics in behalf of (a form of) religion, but they want that all the churches should have an equal chance. Likewise …
5055 The Signs of the Times, vol. 17 July 6, 1891, page 171 paragraph 47
… established church there are many who are advocates and actual possessors of real religious liberty, while dissenting bodies, as bodies, are very far from …
5056 The Signs of the Times, vol. 20 October 22, 1894, page 789 paragraph 11
… the church solely by the Bible! There is not the slightest doubt but that the whole world would be “converted” almost in a body if practical belief in the Bible …
5057 The Signs of the Times, vol. 21 September 19, 1895, page 578 paragraph 1
This is the way a Church of England clergyman has proposed, in a letter to the English Churchman, to purge that body of the Ritualism which is fast making it an exact copy of the Roman Catholic body:—
5058 The Signs of the Times, vol. 21 October 17, 1895, page 643 paragraph 4
… the church in Rome. We can not suppose that the congregation in Rome differed from the great body of Christians in general, and of them we read that “not many …
5059 The Signs of the Times, vol. 21 October 24, 1895, page 659 paragraph 41
… the church, and the great divisions that exist. Spiritual gifts establish the church; therefore the church that does not have those gifts can not be established …
5060 The Signs of the Times, vol. 22 March 19, 1896, page 177 paragraph 4
… the church at Corinth, and to us all, as well, he said, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are …