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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.
3. Of Christ's Love to, care of, defence over it. The Head is careful of the Body—Nor can it be supposed without the highest advance against the Faithfulness, Wisdom, Love of the Lord Jesus, that he should not be so to his Church.
Three things necessarily follow from hence;
1. That Christ is obliged to preserve his Gospel-Church-state, in some particular Churches who may glorify him, in their professed subjection thereto. They are his Body: now every one will nourish, cherish, his own Body.
1. That Christ is obliged to preserve his Gospel-Church-state, in some particular Churches who may glorifie him, in their professed subjection thereto. They are his Body: now every one will nourish, cherish, his own Body.
2. That therefore this Church-state, in some particular Churches, is preserved by Jesus Christ. If it be not, he's unfaithful, fills not up that relation he stands in to his Body, the Church. Besides, if he preserve it not, 'tis either for want of Love, or Power so to do. The first cannot be asserted; for no man yet hated his own flesh, but loves, nourisheth, cherishes it; nor the second; for all power in Heaven and Earth is given to Him.