This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...It is singular that, in most religious denominations, this office is either discontinued, or its nature and duties are entirely changed. In the hierarchal churches, the deacons are transferred from the charge of temporalities to that of spiritualities. They have ceased to "serve tables," and profess to "give themselves ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...It is singular that, in most religious denominations, this office is either discontinued, or its nature and duties are entirely changed. In the hierarchal churches, the deacons are transferred from the charge of temporalities to that of spiritualities. They have ceased to "serve tables," and profess to "give themselves to the Word of God and to prayer." In a word, they claim to be clergymen. Moreover, they are never inducted into their office with any expectation of retaining it for life. It is not sought or conferred for its own sake; but merely as one condition of being admitted to a higher order in the priesthood. It is difficult to conceive of a greater departure from its original design, than this divinely appointed office has undergone. In the Congregational churches it is retained, and fulfills its original purposes. Way of the Churches of New England, &c, p. 48. 13 We hear much in our times about the necessity of an "apostolical succession" in the gospel ministry. And truly such a succession is needful, not in form, but in fact; not in show, but in spirit. Wherever you see a "son of consolation," one "who is a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith," there you see a true successor of the apostles, so far as they can have successors on earth. It is no matter through what external source he may have derived his license or authority to preach the gospel and administer its offices; if the spirit that was in the apostles be in him, he is their fellow-laborer, and their successor in the work they wrought. Though he may have undergone no prelatical manipulations, he is qualified to serve at the altar, " by the imposition of a holier hand." When we see a man called to the ministry b...
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