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1461 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HERESY.2 (Noah Webster)
… established church, an opinion is deemed heresy, when it differs from that of the church. The Scriptures being the standard of faith, any opinion that is repugnant …
1462 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOST.10 (Noah Webster)
In the Romish church, the sacrifice of the mass, or the consecrated wafer, representing the body of Christ, or as the Catholics allege, transubstantiated into his own body.
1463 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPANATION.1 (Noah Webster)
IMPANATION, n. The supposed substantial presence of the body and blood of Christ, with the substance of the bread and wine, after consecration, in the eucharist; a tenet of the Lutheran church; otherwise called consubstantiation.
1464 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LENGTH.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The extent of anything material from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as the length of a church or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.
1465 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEMBER.5 (Noah Webster)
… the church.
1466 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NAVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The middle or body of a church extending from the balluster or rail of the door, to the chief choir.
1467 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESBYTERY.1 (Noah Webster)
PRESBYTERY, n. A body of elders in the christian church.
1468 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESBYTERY.3 (Noah Webster)
… of churches within a certain district, and one ruling elder, a layman, from each parish, commissioned to represent the parish in conjunction with the minister …
1469 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROUD.2 (Noah Webster)
… his church. He conceives that any thing excellent or valuable, in which he has a share, or to which he stands related, contributes to his own importance, and this …
1470 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REAL.12 (Noah Webster)
Real presence, in the Romish church, the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ.
1471 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SECEDER.1 (Noah Webster)
SECEDER, n. One who secedes. In Scotland, the seceders are a numerous body of presbyterians who seceded from the communion of the established church, about the year 1733.
1472 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STATE.12 (Noah Webster)
… terms church and state. In this case, state signifies the civil community or government only.
1473 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEMPLE.6 (Noah Webster)
3. A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21 .
1474 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VISIBLE.6 (Noah Webster)
Visible church, in theology, the apparent church of Christ; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the real or invisible church, consisting of sanctified persons.
1475 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. church.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… corporate body, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is God’s remnant church, and despite flaws will eventually “come to port,” to describe a shipping metaphor …
1476 Sister White, p. 66.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)
… the church to start a health home, or sanitarium, to cure sick people and to teach them the laws of health. The Health Reform Institute, which was afterward named …
1477 Stories of My Grandmother, p. 86.2 (Ella May White Robinson)
… true church. But like many others, he hunted excuses for not joining. While he lay thinking of these things, his body tortured with pain, one of the workers came …
1478 There Shines A Light, p. 24.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)
… the churches, but particularly by the Baptist, Methodist, and Christian bodies, large numbers of their clergy becoming proclaimers of the advent. The churches …
1479 There Shines A Light, p. 32.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)
The body that came in time to be known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church had in the beginning three leading persons, the founders. First of these was Joseph …
1480 There Shines A Light, p. 43.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)
… Adventist church in the West. Isaiah 13:12 .