There were confessors and martyrs in the third century who held very loose views on the subject of Church discipline, and who gave tickets of peace without much inquiry or consideration.
Every one cannot be a member of a church court; but every one can aid in the preservation of church discipline.
After the Westminster Divines had agreed respecting the office-bearers whose permanent continuation in the church can be proved from scriptural authority; they proceeded to inquire concerning the subject of Church Discipline.
Church discipline originated in the "power of the keys" and in the control of the sacraments.
In the main they are records of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths; but some of them relate to matters of church discipline, and these throw a curious light on the social habits of a period now singularly remote.
The above, four in number, are all the cases of church discipline recorded as having been administered during the Fiske pastorate.
The cases about that confession which belongeth to church discipline, belongeth to the second part; and therefore shall here be passed by.
But hath not the king power in cases of church discipline, and excommunication itself?
His Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline, etc.
He had resolved, he said, to devote himself to his spiritual calling and secure a reform in church discipline.
The reckless and shameless sale of indulgences often made the exercise of church discipline impossible, and the discreditable conduct of the mendicant monks destroyed all respect for the confessional.
Then he found himself near the deep pond at the entry of the place, out of which more than one young creature had been drawn out, who preferred this humid death to sitting on the stool of penitent sinners or to church discipline.
What I oppose here in Olevianus' church discipline, is the power of the priesthood, the subjugation of conscience, how could you therefore expect, that I should ever permit my child to confess to one of your priests?
No, we know nothing about it, we want no Church discipline," was shouted on all sides.
In the order of Church discipline, a man was brought up before him, as the pastor, for having knocked down an Unitarian.
Desire of Massachusetts for a platform of church discipline.
The desire of the Court grew in part out of the influx of new colonists, who did not like the strict church discipline, and in part out of the tangle of Church and State during the Roger Williams controversy.
We see here not only the end of Church discipline, but the force of which it disposes for the attainment of its end.
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