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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.
Because, such Churches, (for the Matter of them) consist of visible Saints, (at least a principal part of them) especially when they present themselves to sit down before the Lord at his Table. ⟨p. 2⟩And for the Form; they do agree together in choosing their own Minister, in attending duly to the Ministry of the Word and Sacraments, and in submitting to the Doctrine of the Gospel: which implieth a real and visible (though implicit) profession of the Covenant of grace requisite to Church-estate.
BEcause, such Churches, (for the Matter of them) consist of visible Saints, (at least a principall part of them) especially when they present themselves to sit downe before the Lord at his Table. ⟨p. 2⟩And for the Forme; they doe agree together in choosing their owne Minister, in attending duely to the Ministry of the Word and Sacraments, and in submitting to the Doctrine of the Gospel: which implyeth a reall and visible (though implicite) profession of the Covenant of grace requisite to Church-estate.
Object. The Parish-Churches in England were Antichristian, if not in their first Institution, yet at least for these many hundred years; and were never since unchurched, nor new moulded out of their Antichristian Apostasy.
Object. The Parish-Churches in England were Antichristian, if not in their first Institution, yet at least for these many hundred yeares; and were never since unchurched, nor new moulded out of their Anchristian Apostacy.