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topic_name = Sacrament / Ordinance | ...commanded) by Jesus Christ. In some churches the term is referred to as an ordinance. In the [[Roman Catholic Church]], [[Eastern Orthodoxy]], [[Lutheranism]] a

* [[The Lord's Supper]] is a weekly ordinance which is given to all believers in Christ. [[The washing of feet]] is also an ordinance that is practiced by all Christians in obedience to Christ's commands found

...to his own light with God." While he owned "[[water baptism]] to be God's ordinance," he refused to make "an idol of it," as he thought those did who made the

...rch and father and teacher of all Christian people," that (s.2) "by divine ordinance, the Roman church possesses a pre-eminence of ordinary power over every oth

...e restrained. For when I was going on in my wonted course, which no law or ordinance had inhibited, certain forward volunteers in the city, banding together, st ...ire dissolution of the hierarchy, though it was not as yet abolished by an ordinance of parliament. There were no ecclesiastical courts, no visitations, no wear

...men. Likewise does Peter when he says (1 Pet 2, 13), "Be subject to every ordinance [or creature] of man"; that is, to everything commanded, ordained, institut