 | Benjamin Kurtz - 1843 - 234 דפים
...adopted it. Lutherans are still as much as ever persuaded that there is no law of divine authority which points out a distinction between the ministers of the gospel with respect to rank, dignity or prerogative, and hence they still recede in all countries from diocesan episcopacy, except jure humano,... | |
 | Samuel Simon Schmucker - 1852 - 288 דפים
...that rendered it so odious. 4 The Lutherans are persuaded that there is no law of divine authority which points out a distinction between the ministers...prerogatives: and therefore they recede from episcopacy" 5 On the other hand, the early reformers having been trained under the aristocratic governments of... | |
 | 1855 - 1016 דפים
...polity are duly considered. On the one hand, they are persuaded that there is no law of Divine authority which points out a distinction between the ministers...communion, by connecting, in consequence of a mutual dependence, more closely together the members of the same body, and thus they avoid the uniformity... | |
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This constitution of the Lutheran hierarchy will not seem surprising, when the sentiments of that people, with respect to ecclesiastical polity, are duly considered. On the one hand, they are persuaded that there is no law, of divine authority, which... 
