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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 13: SERM, XIII.
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In the next place, There is the Instrumental Cause, and that is by the preaching of the Word. For so we read upon Christs giving his Apostles commission to 1teach and preach to all Nations, there were Churches gathered in every place. And this is to be understood of the ordinary way. For whether the Word even as read, may not in some extraordinary cases be a means to bring some one person or more to the Church of God, is not here to be disputed: for we speak of the solemn, ordinary, instituted means of God, and so there is no other way but the preaching of the Word. Hence Rom. 10. 14, 15. you see there a concatenation and chaining of calling upon God, and believing together; of believing and hearing together, and of hearing and the Ministry together.
In the next place, There is the Instrumental Cause, and that is by the preaching of the Word. For so we read upon Christs giving his Apostles commission to 1teach and preach to all Nations, there were Churches gathered in every place. And this is to be understood of the ordinary way. For whether the Word even as read, may not in some extraordinary cases be a means to bring some one person or more to the Church of God, is not here to be disputed: for we speak of the solemn, ordinary, instituted means of God, and so there is no other way but the preaching of the Word. Hence Rom. 10. 14, 15. you see there a concatenation and chaining of calling upon God, and believing together; of beliving and hearing together, and of hearing and the Ministry together.
- 1The instrumental cause of the Church is the preaching of the Word.
But it's objected by the Socinians, That if the preaching of the Word be an instrument to gather a Church, then it cannot be a note of the Church. For that which is antecedent to a Church, and is before the Church is, cannot be a note of it.