{"passage":["Revelation 2:2"],"results":[{"document":"lbcf1689","id":"26.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689/paragraphs/26.3","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under Heaven are subject to mixture, and error; and some have so degenerated as to become","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1689-modernized","id":"26.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689-modernized/paragraphs/26.3","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under Heaven are subject to mixture, and error; and some have so degenerated as to become","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1677","id":"26.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1677/paragraphs/26.3","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under heaven are subject to mixture, and error; and som have so degenerated as to become","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"phila1742","id":"27.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742/paragraphs/27.3","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under Heaven are subject to Mixture, and Error; and some have so degenerated as to become","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"46.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/46.1","segments":[{"text":"Thus being rightly gathered, established, and still proceeding in Christian communion, and obedience of the Gospel of Christ, none ought to separate for faults and corruptions, which may, and as long as the Church consists of men subject to failings, will fall out and arise amongst them, even in true constituted Churches, untill they have in due order sought redresse thereof.","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"46.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/46.1","segments":[{"text":"Thus being rightly gathered, and continuing in the obedience of the Gospel of Christ, none are to separate for faults and corruptions (for as long as the Church consists of men subject to failings, there will be difference in the true constituted Church) untill they have in due order, and tendernesse, sought redresse thereof.","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"20.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/20.4","segments":[{"text":"And, for their publishing of such Opinions, or maintaining of such Practises, as are contrary to the light of Nature, or to the known Principles of Christianity, whether concerning Faith, Worship, or Conversation; or, to the Power of Godlinesse; or, such erroneous Opinions or Practises, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the externall Peace and Order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the Censures of the Church,","proofs":["Revelation 2:2"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"25.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/25.4","segments":[{"text":"And particular Churches, which are Members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the Doctrine of the Gospel is taught and imbraced, Ordinances administred, and Publique Worship performed more or less purely in them.","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"25.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/25.5","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under Heaven are subject both to mixture, and error:","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"20.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/20.4","segments":[{"text":"And, for their publishing of such Opinions, or maintaining of such Practices, as are contrary to the light of Nature, or to the known Principles of Christianity, whether concerning Faith, Worship, or Conversation; or, to the Power of Godliness; or, such erroneous Opinions or Practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external Peace and Order which Christ has established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the Censures of the Church,","proofs":["Revelation 2:2"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"25.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/25.4","segments":[{"text":"And particular Churches, which are Members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the Doctrine of the Gospel is taught and embraced, Ordinances administered, and Public Worship performed more or less purely in them.","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"25.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/25.5","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under Heaven are subject both to mixture, and error:","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"30.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/30.1","segments":[{"text":"And although there may be many Errors in such a Visible Church, or Congregations, they being not Infallible, yet those Errors being not Fundamental, and the Church in the major, or Governing part, being not Guilty, she is not thereby unchurched; nevertheless She ought to detect those Errors,","proofs":["Revelation 2:2, 14–16, 20–23"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"31.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/31.1","segments":[{"text":"and solemnly set apart by Fasting and Prayer, with Imposition of Hands, by the Bishops of the same Function, ordinarily; and those Bishops so Ordained, have the Government of those Churches that had Suffrage in their Election,","proofs":["Revelation 2:1–2, 8, 12"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/109","segments":[{"text":"tolerating a false religion;","proofs":["Revelation 2:2, 14–15, 20"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/109","segments":[{"text":"tolerating a false religion;","proofs":["Revelation 2:2, 14–15, 20"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, &c. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, &c.","proofs":["Revelation 2:2, 4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"48","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/48","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I know thy Works, and thy Labour, and thy Patience,","proofs":["Revelation 2:2"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"53","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/53","segments":[{"text":"I know thy works and thy labour,","proofs":["Revelation 2:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Revelation 2:2, 14–15, 20"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"(5) Because, Christ approves, and commends the Pastors of the Church of Ephesus, because they could not suffer them, that are evil, but had tried them, which say they are Apostles, and were not, and had found them Liars;","proofs":["Revelation 2:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Revelation 2–3"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Next, that being fallen they may rise againe, and be saued, it is apparent both by the exhortations of the Angell vnto the Churches of Ephesus, Pergamus, and Thyatira,","proofs":["Revelation 2"]}]}]}