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Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…
Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumes lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumns lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1653
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.
You will say, Jesus Christ knew him to be faulty, and he told John that lay in his bosom what he was; but though he knew him as he was God, yet he deals with him in his ministerial way, and he had appointed before that none were to be cast out but were to be dealt withal in such a Ministerial way; so that it is not enough though I knew by Revelation from God that such a man were an Hypocrite; suppose God should reveal from heaven to me that such a man were an hypocrite, I think I might communicate with him still when he doth not so far discover himself that I can by witness prove his evil; therefore though men be wicked, yet it doth not defile the communion where they are, if there hath been that way used that Christ hath appointed for the observation in His Church. And when that is done, then I am to withdraw from him, and to profess against communion with him, so that that's enough to answer the case.
You will say, Jesus Christ knew him to be faulty, and he told John that lay in his bosom what he was; but though he knew him as he was God, yet he deales with him in his ministerial way, and he had appointed before that none were to be cast out but were to be delt withal in such a Ministerial way; so that it is not enough though I knew by Revelation from God that such a man were an Hypocrite; suppose God should reveale from heaven to me that such a man were an hypocrite, I think I might communicate with him still when he doth not so far discover himself that I can by witness prove his evil; therefore though men be wicked, yet it doth not defile the communion where they are, if there hath been that way used that Christ hath appointed for the observation in His Church. And when that is done, then I am to withdraw from him, and to profess against communion with him, so that thats enough to answer the case.
We read likewise that there were divers wicked men among the Corinthians, and of Tares that grew in the Wheat.
We reade likewise that there were divers wicked men among the Corinthians, and of Tares that grew in the Wheat.