A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice

Name: A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice
Author: John Bunyan

A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice, or, With who, and who not, I can hold church-fellowship, or the communion of saints

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for Francis Smith, 1672

[10], 130 p. · 23k words · Wing B5506 · ESTC R36326

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A Confession of my Faith; and a reason of my practice in worship, &c. › A reason of my Practise in Worship,

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[ Earlier:103–118 of 218

:103p. 56¶2

2. It subjecteth not the nature of our discipline, which is not forced, but free, in a professed subjection to the will and commandment of Christ: others being excluded by God's own prohibition, Levit. 1.3. Rom. 6.17, 2 Cor. 8, 12. chap. 9 7.13. chap. 8.5.

:104p. 56–57

Paul also when he exhorteth Timothy to follow after righteousness; Faith, Charity, Peace, &c. (which ⟨p. 57⟩are the bowels of Church communion) he saith, do it with those that call on the name of the Lord, out of a pure heart. 2 Tim. 2, 22.

:105p. 57

Sithly, In a word, to hold communion with the open profane, is most pernicious and destructive.

Sithly, In a word, to hold communion with the open prophane, is most pernicious and destructive.

:106p. 57¶1

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