 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1793 - 634 pages
...a Bifhop's Function muft be defined by that wherein his Chiefty confifteth. A Bifhop is a Minifter of God, unto whom, with permanent continuance, there is given not only Power of adminiftering the Word and Sacraments ; which Power other Prefbyters have ; but alfo a further Power... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - Church polity - 1821 - 478 pages
...bishops being chief ones, a bishop's function must be defined by that wherein his chiefly consisteth. A bishop is a minister of God, unto whom with permanent...sacraments, which power other presbyters have ; but also a farther power to ordain ecclesiastical persons, and a power of chiefty in government over presbyters... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1822 - 472 pages
...bishops being chief ones, a bishop's function must be denned by that wherein his chiefly consisteth. A bishop is a minister of God, unto whom with permanent...sacraments, which power other presbyters have; but also a farther power to ordain ecclesiastical persons, and a power of chiefty in government over presbyters... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1830 - 584 pages
...Bishops being chief ones, a Bishop's Function must be defined by that wherein his Chiefty consisteth. A Bishop is a Minister of God, unto whom, with permanent...Sacraments, which power other Presbyters have; but also a farther power to ordain Ecclesiastical persons, and a power of chiefly in government over Presbyters... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1830 - 552 pages
...Bishops being chief ones, a Bishop's Function must be defined by that wherein his Chiefty consisteth. A Bishop is a Minister of God, unto whom, with permanent...there is given, not only Power of administering the \Vord and Sacraments, which power other Presbyters have; but also a farther power to ordain Ecclesiastical... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1832 - 360 pages
...— Hooker s Eccles. Polity, book vii. sect. 2. The same judicious writer defines a bishop to be, " a minister of God, unto whom, with permanent continuance,...power to ordain ecclesiastical persons, and a power of chiefly in government, over presbyters, as well as laymen, a power to be, by way of jurisdiction, a... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - Episcopacy - 1835 - 412 pages
...the Church. ' Again, (239.) Hooker defines the office of a bishop thus : ' A bishop, ' saith he, ' is a minister of God, unto whom, with permanent continuance,...power to ordain ecclesiastical persons, and a power of chiefly in government over presbyters as well as laymen, a power to be, by way of jurisdiction, a pastor... | |
 | Great Britain - 1843 - 600 pages
...of Bishop Eastburn.) FOR this office, we take the definition of Hooker : — " A Bishop," says he, " is a minister of God, unto whom, with permanent continuance,...sacraments, which power other presbyters have, but a\so a. further power to ordain ecclesiastical persons, and a power of chiefly in government over presbyters... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 590 pages
...jurisdiction." Or as in another passage,f " a bishop is a minister of God," distinguished from presbyters by " a further power to ordain ecclesiastical persons,...in government over presbyters as well as laymen." 41. Of such a power it is conceived that there are abundant traces in the New Testament, although they... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 pages
...jurisdiction." Or as in another passage,f " a bishop is a minister of God," distinguished from presbyters by " a further power to ordain ecclesiastical persons,...in government over presbyters as well as laymen." 41. Of such a power it is conceived that there are abundant traces in the New Testament, although they... | |
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A bishop is a minister of God unto whom, with permanent continuance, there is given, not only power of administering the word and sacraments, which power other presbyters have ; but also a further power to ordain ecclesiastical persons, and a power of... 
