Vid. Hun. Eccl. Rom. non est christiana: et Perkins. A papist cannot go beyond a reprobate.
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Acts i. 17; Matt. vii. 23.
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In the time of the Arian emperors the churches refused the bishops whom the emperors imposed on them, and stuck to their own orthodox bishops; especially at Alexandria and Cæsarea, after the greatest urgency for their obedience.
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Matt. xvi. 26; Prov. x. 32; xix. 8; Luke xii. 4.
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Matt. xv. 14; 1 Tim. iv. 6, 16; Matt. xvi. 6; xxiv. 4. Mark iv. 24; Luke viii. 18; Matt. xxiii. 16.
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See more of this after.
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See also my "Reasons of Christian Religion," Cons. ii. of the interest of the church.
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1 Cor. xii. 12, and throughout.
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Eph. iv. 1, 5-7, 16.
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Matt. xxviii. 19; Mark xvi. 16.
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John xiv. 6; 1 Tim. iii. 16; vi. 3, 11; 2 Pet. i. 3.
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Acts ii. 38, 39.
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Cor. vi. 9, 10; Tit. iii. 3-5; Eph. ii. 1-3; Acts ii. 37, 38.
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Matt. xxviii. 19, 20; Heb. xiii. 7, 17; 1 Thess. v. 12, 13; 1 Tim. v. 17.
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John xx. 21; xiii. 20; Luke x. 3; Rom. x. 15; Acts xx. 28.
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Phil. i. 15-17; Matt. vii. 22; Rom. xv. 14.
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Eph. iv. 7, 8; 2 Tim. ii. 2; i. 5, 7; Eph. vi. 19; Col. iv. 3; 2 Cor. x. 4, 5.
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Tit. i. 2; 2 Cor. viii. 6; 1 Cor. iv. 1, 2; Tit. i. 7.
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2 Tim. 2; iii. 2; iv. 11; vi. 2, 3; 1 Thess. v. 12, 13.
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Heb. xiii. 7, 17; Acts vi. 4; ix. 40; xx. 36; Mal. ii. 7; Heb. x. 11.
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Rev. i. 6; v. 10; xx. 6; 1 Pet. ii. 5, 6.
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Rom. i. 1; Col. iv. 12; 2 Pet. i. 1; 1 Cor. iv. 1, 2; iii. 5; 2 Cor. iii. 6; xi. 4; xi. 23; Matt. xxix. 45, 46, 48; 1 Cor. ix. 19.
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Rom. x. 15, 16.
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1 Tim. iii. 6, 7; Tit. i. 5, 6.
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Acts xiii. 2; Rom. i. 1; 1 Tim. iv. 15.
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