 | Henry Bradley Bell - 1905 - 358 sider
...government, to be varied according to time, place and accidents. For all civil governments are restrained by God unto the general grounds of justice and manners,...but the policies and forms of them are left free. So likewise in Church matters the substance of doctrine is immutable, but for rites and ceremonies and... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1908 - 484 sider
...never find any such thing, but that God had left the like liberty to the Church Government, as he hath done to the Civil Government, to be varied according to time and place and accidents. . . . the substance of doctrine is immutable, and so are the general rules of government ; but for... | |
 | David Playfair Heatley - 1913 - 310 sider
...government and civil government. God has ' left the like liberty to the Church government, as he hath done to the civil government, to be varied according...and kingdoms, senates and seignories, popular states or communalities, are all lawful, and where they are planted ought to be maintained inviolate. So likewise... | |
 | Edward McCrady - 1916 - 366 sider
...could never find any such thing: but that God had left the like liberty to the Church Government, as He had done to the Civil Government; to be varied according...high and divine Providence doth order and dispose. ... So likewise in Church Matters, the substance of Doctrine is immutable; and so are the general rules... | |
 | John William Allen - 1644 - 700 sider
...English constitution much, I think, as Sir Thomas Smith had done. 'All civil governments', he wrote, 'are restrained from God unto the general grounds...forms of them are left free; so that monarchies and 55 kingdoms, senates and seignories, popular states and commonwealths are lawful and where they are... | |
 | J. C. Davis - 1983 - 444 sider
...pp. 49, 52. possessed of divine sanction. God allowed civil government (as he allowed ecclesiastical government) to be varied according to time and place...unto the general grounds of justice and manners, but that policies and forms of them are left free. So that monarchies and kingdoms, senates and seignories,... | |
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I for my part do confess, that in revolving the Scriptures I could never find any such thing : but that God had left the like liberty to the church government, as he had done to the civil government ; to be varied according to time, and place, and accidents,... 
