A25467:1161
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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1. It acts it self by Obedience unto the Authority of Christ in this Institution. This is the foundation of all Communion with Christ, or participation of him in any Ordinance of divine Worship whatever, tha• is peculiarly of his own Sovereign Appointment, and that in, and with such circumstances as unto the Time, or Season, and manner of it, as requires especial actings of Faith with respect thereunto; For the Institution of this Ordinance was in the close of his Ministry or Prophetical Office on the Earth, and in the entrance of the exercise of his Priestly Office in offering himself a Sacrifice unto God for the sins of the Church between them both, and to render them both effectual unto us, he interposed an act of his Kingly Office in the Institution of this Ordinance. And it was in the same night wherein he was betrayed; when his holy Heart was ⟨p. 231⟩in the highest exercise of zeal for the glory of God, and compassion for the Souls of sinners, s•ith hath herein an especial regard unto all these things. It doth not only act it self by a subjection of Soul and Conscience unto the Authority of Christ in the Institution, but respects also the exerting of his authority in the Close of his Prophetical and entrance of the exercise of his Sacerdotal Office, on the Earth; with all those other circumstances of it, which recommend it unto the Souls and Consciences of Believers.
1. It acts it self by Obedience unto the Authority of Christ in this Institution. This is the foundation of all Communion with Christ, or p•rticipation of him in any Ordinance of divine Worship whatever, tha• is peculiarly of his own Soveraign Appointment, and that in, and with such circumstances as unto the Time, or Season, and manner of it, as requires especial actings of Faith with respect thereunto; For the Institution of this Ordinance was in the close of his Ministry or Prophetical Office on the Earth, and in the entrance of the exercise of his Priestly Office in offering himself a Sacrifice unto God for the sins of the Church between them both, and to render them both effectual unto us, he interposed an act of his Kingly Office in the Institution of this Ordinance. And it was in the same night wherein he was betrayed; when his holy Heart was