The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible by Alexander Wilson McClure

Author:Alexander Wilson McClure
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781154873801
Publisher: Filiquarian Legacy Publishing
Published: 2012-10-02T22:00:00+00:00

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these have approved that for sound doctrine, which was condemned by the general consent of the whole church as heresy, in the most flourishing time. I hope he will acknowledge that he was overseen, when he announced the superiority of bishops over the rest of the clergy to be God's own ordinance."

Good Dr. Reynolds' charitable hopes, though backed by such an overwhelming array of authorities, were doomed to be disappointed. Bancroft's novel doctrine has been in fashion ever since. Still there are not wanting many who soundly hold, in the words of Reynolds, that "unto us Christians, no land is strange, no ground unholy; every coast is Jewry, every town Jerusalem, every house Sion; and every faithful company, yea, every faithful body, a temple to serve God in. The presence of Christ among two or three, gathered together in his name, maketh any place a church, even as the presence of a king with his attendants maketh any place a court."

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