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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 21
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In these cases a Saint without Church-communion may be excused. But then there are sinful and unjustifiable grounds of some persons, who do not 1join themselves to any Church-society, and that may be either from a Corrupt Opinions, or a Corrupt Heart, though they seldom be separated from one another.
In these cases a Saint without Church-communion may be excused. But then there are sinfull and unjustifiable grounds of some persons, who do not 1joyn themselves to any Church-society, and that may be either from a Corrupt Opinions, or a Corrupt Heart, though they seldom be separated from one another.
- 12. Unlawful grounds upon which some do […] themselves to any Church-society. 1. From corrupt opinions.2. Unlawfull grounds upon which some do 〈…〉 themselves to any Church-society. 1. From corrupt opinions.
First, From a Corrupt Opinion: As, 1. Of those who call themselves Seekers, confessing they cannot yet find a Church, to which they may joy• For they affirm, That since the Apostles days there are no Churches, and therefore till they can see Apostles, Apostolical gifts and miracles, with the like effusion of the holy Ghost upon persons, they cannot own any Church. But this is against those Texts of Scripture, which speak of a perpetuity of the Ministry, and the duty of receiving Sacraments, till the coming of Christ, which could not be, if there were no Church.
First, From a Corrupt Opinion: As, 1. Of those who call themselves Seekers, confessing they cannot yet find a Church, to which they may joy• For they affirm, That since the Apostles dayes there are no Churches, and therefore till they can see Apostles, Apostolical gifts and miracles, with the like effusion of the holy Ghost upon persons, they cannot own any Church. But this is against those Texts of Scripture, which speak of a perpetuity of the Ministry, and the duty of receiving Sacraments, till the coming of Christ, which could not be, if there were no Church.