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1 Chronicles 26

2 passages from 2 books in the Christian Reader library reference 1 Chronicles 26.

1. The Meaning
from A Golden Chain by William Perkins · cites 1 Chronicles 26:11

Therefore to make a difference between God's kingdom, power, and glory, and those of earthly kings, it is said, Yours is the kingdom, etc. that is, that God has all these in himself, and from himself, and men from him. The kingdom] These words (1 Chronicles 26:11) are fully expo…
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Part 1 — Chapter 3: The First Argument for Ruling Elders, Taken from the Jewish Church
from An Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland in the Points of Ruling-Elders and of the Authority of Presbyteries and Synods with a Postscript in Answer to a Treatise Lately Published Against Presbyteriall Government. by George Gillespie · cites 1 Chronicles 26:20

But as it was a Church, and not as Jewish, it had foure sorts of ordinary office-bearers, Priests, Levites, Doctors, and Elders, and we conformablie have Pastors, Deacons, Doctors, and Elders. To their Priests and Levits, Cyprian does rightly liken our Pastors and Deacons, for h…
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