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Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters
Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters.
London : Printed and are to be sold by E. Whitlock, 1697
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Mr. RICHARD BAXTER's LAST LEGACY TO ALL Sober Dissenters. › Of the Holiness of Churches.
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.
Of the Holiness of Churches.
Q. 170. Are Temples, Fonts, Utensils, Church-lands, much more Ministers Holy! 1And what reverence is due to them, as Holy? Answ. Temples, Utensils, Lands, &c. devoted, and lawfully separated by Man, for Holy uses, are Holy, as justly related to God by that lawful separation. Ministers are more Holy than Temples, Lands, or Utensils, as being nearlier related to holy things; and things separated by God, are more Holy than those justly separated by Man. And so of Days, every thing should be reverenced according to the measure of its Holiness: And this expressed by such Signs, Gestures, Actions, as are fittest to Honour God, to whom they are related. And so to be uncovered in the Church, and use reverent Carriage and Gestures there, doth tend to preserve due Reverence to God, and to his Worship, 1 Cor. 16. 20.
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