 God; and for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship or conversation, or to the power of godliness, or such...  The Printing of the Westminster Confession - Page 172by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield - 1901Full view - About this book
 | James Begg - 1874 - 266 pages
...Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation ; or to the power of godliness ; or such erroneous opinions or practices, as either in their...Church, and by the power of the civil magistrate." 2. — C. 23, § 3. " The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the word... | |
 | 1874 - 608 pages
...contrary," not to the peace and good order of civil society, but " to the power of godliness ; and destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church.'* It is passing strange, surely, that when the Westminster divines meant, as their interpreter says that... | |
 | William Gifford - 1876 - 488 pages
...publishing them are destructive of the peace and order which Christ has established in the Church, may be proceeded against by the censures of the Church, and by the power of the civil magistrate.' I honour Mr. Gillespie for taking exception to such doctrines. Ingenious men may find out some non-natural... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 946 pages
...Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation ; or to the power of godliness ; or such erroneous opinions or practices, as, either in their...Church,' and by the power of the Civil Magistrate.'*' IV. Quoniam vero potestates quas Deus ordinavit, et libertas quam acquisivit Christus non in eum Jinem... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 910 pages
...Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation ; or to the power of godliness; or such erroneous opinions or practices, as, either in their...censures of the Church,' and by the power of the Civil Magistrate.4*5 IV. Quoniam vero potentates quas Deus ordinavit, et libertas quant acquisivit Christus... | |
 | Alliance of Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian System - 1877 - 400 pages
...against by the censures of the Church ; and in proportion as their erroneous opinions or practices either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing...maintaining them, are destructive to the external peace of the Church, and of civil society, they may be also proceeded against by the power of the civil magistrate."... | |
 | World alliance of reformed Churches - 1877 - 400 pages
...against by the censures of the. Church ; and in proportion as their erroneous opinions or practices either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing...maintaining them, are destructive to the- external peace of the Church, and of [ civil society, they may be also proceeded against by the power of the civil... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 968 pages
...sentence, ' and by the power of the civil magistrate,' was omitted, so as to read, ' they [the offenders] may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of the Church.' The only change made in the Larger Catechism was the striking out of the words ' tolerating a false... | |
 | Philipp Schaff - 1877 - 976 pages
...the following passages : CHAP. XX. 4. — . . . hath established in the Church, they (add) ouyhl to be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of the Church, if they belong to her communion, and thus be amenable to her own spiritual authority. And as the civil... | |
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