A26906:332
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being dividers or troublers of the church with some directions to the pastors how to deal with such Christians / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Symmons, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
DIRECT. XI.
Understand well what is the power of the Keys, and what the Pastoral office is, as they are the Governors of the Church entrusted by Christ with the power of admission and rejection; that so you may know how far you are to rest in the judgement of the Pastors, and may not attempt to take any part of their office to your selves.
Understand well what is the power of the Keys, and what the Pastoral offiae is, as they are the Governours of the Church entrusted by Christ with the power of admission and rejection; that so you may know how far you are to rest in the judgement of the Pastors, and may not attempt to take any part of their office to your selves.
The power of the Keys, is the power of taking into the Church, and of Governing it, and of casting out: Both in respect to present Order, and in respect to future happiness, by a Ministerial declaration of the sense of the Gospel, concerning the state of such as they.
THe power of the Keyes, is the power of taking into the Church, and of Governing it, and of casting out: Both in respect to present Order, and in respect to future happiness, by a Ministerial declaration of the sense of the Gospel, concerning the state of such as they.