A02990:254
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
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The word may be preached to heathen and infidels for their conversion.1 Paul preached the word to the scoffing Athenians and to the blasphemous Jews,2 and yet had no external communion with them as with members of the same body.3
The word may be preached to heathen and infidels for their conversion.1 Paul preached the word to the scoffing Athenians and to the blasphemous Jews,2 and yet had no externall communion with them as with members of the same body.3
- 1Object. 2.
- 2Acts 17. 22, 23. 32.
- 3Acts 19. 8, 9.
The word may be preached to them that are without,1 for their conversion to the faith; to them that be within the church by baptism and external profession, for their found conversion unto God, conversion from particular sins, and building forward in grace and holiness. The word is preached to heathens and infidels, but no communion with them is had thereby, because they are not of the Christian society: But to scandalous persons, first received into the church by baptism, and not cast out by public censure, the word is preached as unto members, and not as unto bare hearers; and they are admitted to the prayers of the congregation as well as to the hearing of the word, and that as members in outward covenant. Therefore it is an act of communion in some mens opinions.