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Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregational churches by Mr…Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregationall churches by Mr…
Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregational churches by Mr John Cotton ... ; published by a friend to whom the author himself sent them over not long before his death.Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregationall churches by Mr John Cotton ... ; published by a friend to whom the author himselfe sent them over not long before his death.
London: printed by M.S. for John Allen and Francis Eglesfield, 1654
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.
The 5. Query.
The 5. Querie.
For want or Neglect hereof, Though the Members of Presbyterian Churches should ⟨image 5⟩discern some Defects in the Order and Government of their Churches; yet whether may they suddenly break off Communion with them till they have convinced them of their Defects, and duly and patiently waited for their Reformation?
For want or Neglect hereof, Though the Members of Presbyterian Churches should ⟨image 5⟩discerne some Defects in the Order and Government of their Churches; yet whether may they suddenly breake off Communion with them till they have convinced them of their Defects, and duely and patiently waited for their Reformation?
It may seem No: For if we must take a more dilatory course for the healing of a private Brother, in a way of brotherly love, with much meekness and patience; how much more ought we so to walk towards an whole Church?
It may seeme No: For if we must take a more delatory course for the healing of a private Brother, in a way of brotherly love, with much meekness and patience; how much more ought we so to walke towards an whole Church?