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The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of…
The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. J. Paget entitled The defence of church-government exercised in classes and synods / by John Davenport.The power of Congregational churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. J. Paget intituled The defence of church-government exercised in classes and synods / by John Davenport.
London: printed for Rich. Chiswell and to be sold by John Usher of Boston, 1672
Part 1 › Chapter 5: Concerning the Churches impregnable stability.
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.
Though the gates of Hell have sometime, and in some degree, prevailed against this or that particular visible Church, holding fast the profession of their Faith without wavering; yet they have not prevailed according to the meaning of these words. They have prevailed [Greek or Hebrew], only in some respect; as, 1. in Temporals, to impoverish them, Heb. 10.34. to bring them under bondage, as Pharaoh did the Israelites; to establish a decree for their destruction, as Haman did against the Jews; to put multitudes of them to death, as the ten persecuting Emperors did the Christians, and as the high Priest and the Jews dealt with Christ. 2. In Spirituals, 1. to scatter the Members of the ⟨p. 66⟩Church; so far the gates of Hell prevailed against them, upon occasion of Stephen, Act. 8.1. and to cause the Woman to fly into the Wilderness, Rev. 12. 2. To assault them with temptations; as Christ told Peter, that Satan had desired to winnow him like Wheat.
Though the gates of Hell have sometime, and in some degree, prevailed against this or that particular visible Church, holding fast the profession of their Faith without wavering; yet they have not prevailed according to the meaning of these words. They have prevailed 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, only in some respect; as, 1. in Temporals, to impoverish them, Heb. 10.34. to bring them under bondage, as Pharaoh did the Israelites; to establish a decree for their destruction, as Haman did against the Jews; to put multitudes of them to death, as the ten persecuting Emperors did the Christians, and as the high Priest and the Jews dealt with Christ. 2. In Spirituals, 1. to scatter the Members of the ⟨p. 66⟩Church; so far the gates of Hell prevailed against them, upon occasion of Stephen, Act. 8.1. and to cause the Woman to flye into the Wilderness,