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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.
7. The means of its support, upholdment, continuance, progress, is the same Spirit, 2 Cor. 10.4. The Weapons of our warfare are not Carnal, but Mighty through God—. Antichrist hath other ways to support, promote his filthy Worship, senseless traditions, ridiculous fopperies, viz. the arm of flesh, Horrid, Bloody Plots, Conspiracies, to massacre, destroy, cut off, such as stand in the way of his devices: Prisons, Gibbets, Stakes, Flames to consume, devour such as refuse to drink of the Cup of his Fornications; but, Lex nova non se vindicat ultore gladio, the Law of Christ knows no such ways, methods for its support, increase. 'Tis the Spirit, Power of God by which it is (ever was) maintained: a neglect of whom; and turning aside to the Power, Wisdom of Man, warring after the flesh, was the bane of Christianity, and the first spring off the Antichristian apostasy.
7. The means of its support, upholdment, continuance, progress, is the same Spirit, 2 Cor. 10.4. The Weapons of our warfare are not Carnal, but Mighty through God—. Antichrist hath other wayes to support, promote his filthy Worship, senseless traditions, ridiculous fopperies, viz. the arm of flesh, Horrid, Bloody Plots, Conspiracies, to massacre, destroy, cut off, such as stand in the way of his devices: Prisons, Gibbets, Stakes, Flames to consume, devour such as refuse to drink of the Cup of his Fornications; but, Lex nova non se vindicat ultore gladio, the Law of Christ knows no such wayes, methods for its support, increase. 'Tis the Spirit, Power of God by which it is (ever was) maintained: a neglect of whom; and turning aside to the Power, Wisdom of Man, warring after the flesh, was the bane of Christianity, and the first spring off the Antichristian apostacy.
Three things necessarily follow from hence.