 | Church of England - Reformation - 1841 - 490 pages
...the same was not ordained, but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness : for they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year, intending thereby, that the Clergy, and specially such as were ministers of the congregation,... | |
 | Church of England - Reformation - 1841 - 590 pages
...and specially such as wore ministers of the congregation, should (by often reading and meditation of God's word) be stirred up to godliness themselves, and be more able also to exhort other by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth.... | |
 | Richard Burn - Ecclesiastical law - 1842 - 816 pages
...of godliness. For they so CommOT ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or the greatest ra)W' part thereof) should be read over once every year;...godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth ; and further, that the... | |
 | Church of England, William Keeling - England - 1842 - 542 pages
...same ^ was. not ordained but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness. For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year, intending thereby that the clergy, and specially such as were Ministers of the congregation,... | |
 | 1843
...same garden. "—Iin. Bramhall. vol. ip 113. would search out by the ancient fathers, he shall find, that all the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once every year." Again, it is observed : " But these many years passed, this godly and decent order of the ancient fathers... | |
 | William Palmer - Church vestments - 1845 - 416 pages
...same was not ordained but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness .... For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth ; And further, that the... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - 1845 - 560 pages
...year, of this conformable to the practice of the ancient fathers : who (as onr reformers tell usc) so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible, or...in the congregation, should (by often reading and meditating in God's word) be stirred up to godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1846 - 302 pages
...she specifies the "great advancement of godliness" to which it was calculated to conduce. "For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible, or...themselves, and be more able to e"xhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the Truth; and further, that the people,... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - 1846 - 484 pages
...the ancient fathers : who (as OF THE ORDER Chap. III. our reformers0 tell us) so ordered the matte); that all the whole " Bible, or the greatest part thereof,...in the congregation, should (by often reading and meditating in God's word) be stirred up to godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others... | |
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For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible, (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once every year; intending thereby, that the Clergy, and especially such as were Ministers in the congregation, should (by often reading, and... 
