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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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SECT. VII.
Unto the foregoing particular Instances, with respect unto the Church, I shall yet add one more general, which is indeed comprehensive of them all: or the root from whence they spring; a root-bearing Gall and Wormwood. And this is concerning the Catholic Church.
Unto the foregoing particular Instances, with respect unto the Church, I shall yet add one more general, which is indeed comprehensive of them all: or the root from whence they spring; a root-bearing Gall and Wormwood. And this is concerning the Catholick Church.
What belongs unto this Catholic Church, what is comprised in its Communion? The Apostle declares, Heb. 12.22, 23, 24. It is the Recapitulation of all things in Heaven and Earth in Christ Jesus. Eph. 1.10. His Body, his Spouse, or Bride, the Lambs Wife, the glorious Temple, wherein God doth dwell by his Spirit. An holy mystical Society, purchased and purified by the blood of Christ, and united unto him, by his spirit, or the Inhabitation of the same spirit in him, and those whereof it doth consist. Hence they with him, as the body with its head, are mystically called Christ, 1 Cor, 12.12. And there are two parts of it, the one whereof is already perfected in Heaven, as unto their spirits, and the other yet continued in the way of faith and obedience in this world. Both these constitute one family in Heaven and Earth.