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Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his…
Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his next personal glorious coming, plainly proved : objections particularly answered / by an unworthy servant ... R.B.Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his next personal glorious coming, plainly proved : objections particularly answer'd / by an unworthy servant ... R.B.
London: printed by T.M. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
Fourthly. This Church-State is represented under the Notion of A Kingdom which cannot be shaken, moved, Heb. 12.27, 28. Wherefore, we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have Grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence, and godly fear. A few things must be inquired into, viz.
I. What we are to understand by this Kingdom?
Answ. The Gospel-Church-State we are discoursing of. This is Evident, for,
1. 'Tis a Kingdom introduced immediately upon the shaking of the Heaven, so as to remove the things shaken, i. e. upon the putting a period to the Judaic-Church-State, with the removing of all the carnal Ordinances thereunto appertaining. When God gave forth the Law upon mount Sinai, his voice shook the Earth, v. 26. But then was the solemn, visible beginning, or creation of their Heaven, or Church-State, which now is shaken by the death of Christ; so that 'tis virtually removed, and Saints are no longer to be subject to it.