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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 14
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You have heard what is to be understood by this expression of a Church. The true Doctrine about this being so necessary, I shall further enlarge my self, not entering into the whole Common-place of a Church: for that would be too prolix, and ere this Epistle be ended, we may happily meet with more Texts, that may afford further knowledge in this point. Only I shall after the popular definition of a Church, give you the Notes, or Marks, whereby we may come to know, what is, or where is the true Church. For this hath been a great controversy between Papists, and us.
YOu have heard what is to be vnderstood by this expression of a Church. The true Doctrine about this being so necessary, I shall further inlarge my self, not entring into the whole Common-place of a Church: for that would be too prolix, and ere this Epistle be ended, we may happily meet with more Texts, that may afford further knowledge in this point. Only I shall after the popular definition of a Church, give you the Notes, or Marks, whereby we may come to know, what is, or where is the true Church. For this hath been a great controversie between Papists, and us.
There are indeed some of late, as the Remonstrants Episcopius, &c. 1who say, This dispute and enquiry about the marks of a Church, is wholly useless and needless. For (say they) either we have to do with an Infidel, or a Believer; if with an Infidel, it is absurd to tell him of the Notes of a Church, who doth not believe there is any such thing as a Church at all. And for a Believer, he is in the Church already, and so they are useless to him. But this is merely frivolous. For
There are indeed some of late, as the Remonstrants Episcopius, &c. 1who say, This dispute and enquiry about the marks of a Church, is wholly uselesse and needlesse. For (say they) either we have to do with an Infidel, or a Believer; if with an Infidel, it is absurd to tell him of the Notes of a Church, who doth not believe there is any such thing as a Church at all. And for a Believer, he is in the Church already, and so they are uselesse to him. But this is meerly frivolous. For