| William Mudge - 1843 - 408 pages
...We will now revert to the Levitical Priesthood. And, first, we remark, in the language of St. Paul; No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said... | |
| Robert Barclay - Society of Friends - 1843 - 142 pages
...account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Heb. v. 4. And -no man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. Now granting there was such a. thing as sacraments, to ' be so solemnly performed,... | |
| John Henry Hobart - Apostolic succession - 1844 - 288 pages
...Church, as stewards of the mysteries of God, as dispensers of his word and sacraments, as ambassadors of God, can act only from a divine commission. No human...succession, from Christ, the great Head of the Church. On (his point there can be no dispute between Episcopalians and Presbyterians. Both agree that the power... | |
| James Gray - 1844 - 172 pages
...proof be not furnished. Here we join issue with you ; for it is our principle, as well as yours, that " no man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God as was Aaron."* We maintain, as strenuously as you can do, that for any person, without a divine... | |
| 1846 - 206 pages
...see the principle of the divine appointment as clearly as before. For still the maxim applies, that ' no man taketh this honour to himself but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.' The Saviour tells his disciples to pray the Lord of the harvest, that HE will send... | |
| John Henry Hobart - Apostolic succession - 1844 - 286 pages
...with you alway, even to the end of the world." You suffer the gates of hell to prevail against the * " No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God as was Aaron." Heb. v. 4. church : for you wrest from it its divine character ; you make its ministers... | |
| 1844 - 738 pages
...element of the Succession, according to the Tracts. But there ie another text, very often alleged : " And no man taketh this honour to Himself, but he that is called of God, л» was Aaron." Now, not to insist on what we might as Protestants answer, that the passage cannot... | |
| Leeds tracts - 1845 - 160 pages
...: to submit ourselves to them, (since their authority is not derived from man, but from GOD ; that no man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of GOD, as was Aaron, that is outwardly, by a duly commissioned man, Moses. That it was equally as impossible... | |
| William Albin Garratt - Apostolic succession - 1846 - 446 pages
...to them, therefore, as deriving, not their commission, but their doctrine, from the apostles. 5. " No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." (Heb. v. 4.) This passage could scarcely mislead any one, except as it is in the... | |
| 1846 - 780 pages
...see the principle of the divine appointment as clearly as before. For still the maxim applies, that ' no man taketh this honour to himself but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.' The Saviour tells his disciples to pray the Lord of the harrest, that HE will tend... | |
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