Bible Dictionary: The First Born: The Dignity of the Church

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Hebrews 12:23
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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Once More He Challenges Him to the Profession of the Creed of ...
... and Church of Antioch, ie, of that Church in which ... the height of the presbyterate,
the dignity of the ... Christ, His only begotten Son, the first-born of every ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter vi once more he.htm

The Sacred Officers and Sacred Occasions.
... known as lawyers and were accorded high standing and dignity. ... They had first authority
in the church. ... the exodus from Egypt and the saving of the first born. ...
/.../the way of salvation in the lutheran church/chapter iii the sacred officers.htm

Symbolic Ornaments of the Church
... to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are ... during the different
seasons of the Church Year ... of the Gospel, and give honor and dignity to the ...
/.../regester/the worship of the church/symbolic ornaments of the church.htm

Comparison Between the False Church and the True.
... they found on antiquity, he was the first-born: and yet ... only are accounted sons who
are born of the ... rise against the Prophets"namely, that the dignity of the ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 2 comparison between the.htm

The Partial Council of Antioch; it Deposed Athanasius; it ...
... the Father, and that He is the first-born of every ... by connecting with it the dignity
of a ... of Germanicia, who subsequently directed the Church of Constantinople ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of sozomenus/chapter v the partial council of.htm

Period ii. The Church from the Permanent Division of the Empire ...
... yet born again, but even though not yet born at all ... and a holy life, I am accustomed
first of all ... the entire honor of our nature, therein its dignity; from this ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period ii the church from.htm

The Ecclesiastical Writers. By "The Fathers" we Understand the ...
... but Origen, who was his first born, afraid lest ... in six consecutive columns"the first,
containing the ... a population; and, though the episcopal dignity was not ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter i the ecclesiastical writers.htm

"For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus Hath Made Me ...
... It is counted a dignity to be a free citizen or ... many of us who are in the visible
church, and stand in ... to stand in the assembly of the first-born, when all the ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon vii for the law.htm

Epistle Lxxi. To Stephen, Concerning a Council.
... and to the unity, as well as the dignity, of the ... Ghost, is of no avail unless baptism
have first been conferred. For only by being born of each sacrament, scil ...
/.../cyprian/the epistles of cyprian/epistle lxxi to stephen concerning.htm

Redemption for Man Lost to be Sought in Christ.
... the person of Adam, the excellence and dignity of our ... the prosperous and happy state
of the Church was always ... Nay, how came it that the first-born was rejected ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 6 redemption for man.htm