| 1858 - 778 sider
...accordance with Christ's words — "My kingdom is not of this world : if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight. . . . But now is my kingdom not from hence." They argued, too, that, as the population of the country professed different religious beliefe,... | |
| 1854 - 834 sider
...is not therefore to be maintained by worldly policy. "If my kingdom were of this world," He says, " then would my servants fight, but now is my kingdom not from hence." They have accustomed themselves, however, to regard the alliance of Christ's kingdom with the... | |
| Daniel Neal - 1817 - 564 sider
...wiift. the power of the sword; tor our Savior's kingdom is not of this world, if it were (says lie) then would my servants fight, but now is my kingdom...purely spiritual, and those of the state purely civil f as the king is supreme in the state, he is also head, or guardian, of the church in loose spiritual... | |
| Daniel Neal - 1817 - 564 sider
...kingdom is not of this world, if it were fsays he) then would my servants Jight, but now is my king-, dom not from hence. The church and state should stand on a distinct basis, and {heir jurisdiction be agreeable to the nature of their crimes; those »f the church purely spiritual,... | |
| Peace Society (London, England) - 1817 - 760 sider
...principles of peace. What did he say to those who had drawn the sword ? " If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight;'' "but now is my kingdom not from hence." It was an argument also in favour of Peace Societies, that war robbed man of that which belonged... | |
| James Sabine - 1820 - 656 sider
...and of one spirit, and saith, " My kingdom is not of this world ; if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight ; but now is my kingdom not from henee : put up tby sword into its sheath ; all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword :... | |
| Daniel Neal - 1822 - 526 sider
...the Puritans of this age did by no means rival those of the prelates before and after the civil wars, yet they are so many species of persecution, and not...king is supreme in the state, he is also head, or gnardian, of the church in those spiritual rights that Christ has intrusted it with. When the church... | |
| 1840 - 1122 sider
...moment, of the employment of secular force. " If my kingdom were of tkis world," said Jesus to Pilate, " then would my servants fight ; but now is my kingdom not from hence." Whatever aid may be rendered by the secular powers to the spiritual kingdom of Christ, —... | |
| 1841 - 440 sider
...entangled with the affairs of this life. " My kingdom is not of this world," said our dear Lord, " then would my servants fight, but now is my kingdom not from hence." But say these ministers, we will fight ; well I wish them no worse rebuke than Peter got, when... | |
| Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 sider
...history of the Church of Christ ? Impossible. Hear Christ himself, " If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight ; but now is my kingdom not from hence." " If," says the Scripture, " if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his ;... | |
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