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• In sum, the histories and the prophecies of the Old Testament and the gospels and epistles of the New Testament have had one and the same scope, to convert men to the obedience of God: 1. in Moses and the priests; 2. in the man Christ; and 3. in the Apostles and the successors to apostolical power. Leviathan
• Even slightly learned theologians know that the symbol, which we call apostolical, is not that of all the apostles. A Philosophical Dictionary
• I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the Old Mortality
• The constant practice of the churches in former ages, in all their meetings for advice and counsel, to consent unto some form of wholesome words, that might be a discriminating "tessera" [symbol] of their communion in doctrine, being used in prime antiquity, -- as is manifest in that ancient symbol commonly esteemed apostolical (of the chief heads whereof mention in the like summary is made in the very first writers among them), -- having also warrant from the word of God, and being of singular use to hold out unto all other churches of the world our apprehensions of the mind of God in the chief heads of religion, may be considered. The Sermons of John Owen
• They were called apostolical perhaps because concocted by some of the bishops of the so-called apostolic Churches. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
• Those prophetical, apostolical admonitions are well known to all; what Solomon, Anatomy of Melancholy
• In his Dictionary, Johnson defined 'Tory' as, "One who adheres to the antient constitution of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the church of England, opposed to a Whig". The King across the Water
• Neither did the apostles determine the matter (as hath been said) by apostolical authority from immediate revelation: but they assembled together with the elders, _to consider of the matter_, ver. 6, and a _multitude of brethren_ together with them, ver. 12, 22, 23; and after searching out the cause by an ordinary means of disputation, ver. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
• Some have observed that whereas in all the epistles to the churches the apostolical benediction is grace and peace, in these two epistles to Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• No one form of Church polity as permanently unalterable is laid down in the New Testament though the apostolical order of bishops, or presbyters, and deacons, superintended by higher overseers (called bishops after the apostolic times), has the highest sanction of primitive usage. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible