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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.
2. Do I plead for the corruptions of Churches, which indeed are too many, and great, perhaps amongst the best, purest Churches at this day; and in some, at that height (as the synagogue of Rome) that there is no communion to be held with them, without God-provoking iniquity, that will without Repentance, bring his Wrath, Vengeance, upon us, Rev. 18.4.
3. That persons had need take heed how they speak evil of, slight, oppose, persecute the Churches of CHRIST, his Worship, Institutions, Ordinances. The Judge stands before the door, the Lord of the Vineyards is ready to be revealed, and in flaming fire to take Vengeance on them that know him not, and obey not his Gospel. Nor will it be a sufficient plea at that day, for any to say, we accounted them not thy Churches, Ordinances; therefore we so managed our selves towards them, a despising, rejecting these, is one way of casting off the Authority of Christ, as we afterward demonstrate.
4. That it highly concerns all that know the Lord, who are either separated from; or, were never adjoined to any Church of Christ; to testify their love, and subjection to him; by subjecting to his Commandments in this matter, lest not being found where Christ expects them, they be blamed, shamed, at his day.
4. That it highly concerns all that know the Lord, who are either separated from; or, were never adjoyned to any Church of Christ; to testify their love, and subjection to him; by subjecting to his Commandements in this matter, lest not being found where Christ expects them, they be blamed, shamed, at his day.