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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.
For such an one is both a Member of a true Church, and cleansed from the defects of his own Church.
For such an one is both a Member of a true Church, and cleansed from the defects of his owne Church.
The 7. Query.
The 7. Querie.
Yea, suppose a godly Christian do continue ⟨p. 8⟩Presbyterian in his Judgement, and yet do approve also of a Congregational way, and is desirous to join in Covenant with a Congregational Church, whether may be not in due order be lawfully admitted and continued a Member of a Congregational Church? Yea further, Notwithstanding the different state and way of Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, and the Defects which the one or the other may observe or surmise either in other; yet (even whilst they so stand and walk) whether may not the Members of either without just offence, mutually Communicate one with another (as occasion shall be offered) at the Lords Table?
Yea, suppose a godly Christian doe continue ⟨p. 8⟩