To forfeit the promise was no trifle; still, even that curse was so mitigated as to secure for them the privilege of beggars, so that heaven was not absolutely denied them, provided they allied themselves with the true Church.
It is declared throughout the Scriptures concerning the true Church, that the wicked are ever shedding its blood.
When, therefore, Cain thus first built a city, that very act tended to show that he not only disregarded and hated the true Church, but wished also to oppose and oppress it.
Whether we must esteem the church of Rome a true church?
Come out of her, my people;" as if God commanded them to come out of a true church because of its corruptions or imperfections, because he calleth them out of Babylon!
The fact that men named what was formed later by the same word which Christ had used in respect to something else, does in no way give them the right to assert that Christ established the one, true church.
It is a fine ornament to a true church to have a large church-porch, or a wide bosom, for reception of all that come thither to worship.
By a true church I mean one that is congregated according to outward rule, that has sinned God away, as she had almost quite done that was of Laodicea (Rev 3).
The first of these cannot be imputed to the persecuted wanderers: for they separate from no true church, whereof they were members, but these from whom they separate, will be found to be the schismatics.
As to disown the ministry were hateful sectarianism; so to dissolve or break off communion with a true church, whereof we are members, were an unnatural schism, which is horrid sin.
Any assembly of people gathered together for the worship of God is a true church.
She is a true Church of God; she is in the world to further the Saviour's cause; and people can belong to her just as much as to any other.
It is absolutely necessary, for the sake of Christ's work, that our Church be recognized as a true Church.
I think Christ has a true church on earth, but its members are scattered among the various denominations, and are more or less under the influence of mystery Babylon and her daughters.
According to the symbols of the preceding chapter the woman, or true church, "fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Where, then, in the history of God's true church do we find the agencies corresponding to the symbol?
And though we dare not make separation from a true Church, by departing from it, as you do; yet we do make a separation in a true Church, by purging and reforming it, which you do not do.
Having obtained this view of the subject, from reading several works of the Fathers, I gave up the absurd notion of a true church teaching a false doctrine, and only wondered how I could have retained it so long.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "true church" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
