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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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. And 2. as notorious and past doubt it is that the end of these Assemblies was such as is here mentioned; 3. And as plain that such Pastors as are here described were set over all these Congregations, and authorized and obliged to the foresaid work, that is under Christ the great Teacher, Priest and Ruler of the Church, to Teach them Gods word, to intercede under Christ for them to God, and from Christ to them in prayer and Sacraments, &c. and to Guide them by that called the Keys of the Church, discerning whom to receive by Baptism, whom to reprove, exhort, comfort or absolve, Act. 14. 23. Act. 20. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. and many other places show this.
§. 7. And 2. as notorious and past doubt it is that the end of these Assemblies was such as is here mentioned; 3. And as plain that such Pastors as are here described were set over all these Congregations, and authorized and obliged to the foresaid work, that is under Christ the great Teacher, Priest and Ruler of the Church, to Teach them Gods word, to intercede under Christ for them to God, and from Christ to them in prayer and Sacraments, &c. and to Guide them by that called the Keyes of the Church, discerning whom to receive by Baptism, whom to reprove, exhort, comfort or absolve, Act. 14. 23. Act. 20. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. and many other places shew this.
§. 8. And it is no less plain that the people were bound to continue in their doctrine, communion and prayer, and to obey them in that which they were commissioned to do: