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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
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.
Hieron. Epist. ad Minerium & Alexandrum.
Omnia probate, quod bonum est tenete—estote probati nummularij, ut si quis nummus adulter est, & figuram Caesaris non habet, nec signatus est moneta publica, reprobetur, qui autem Christi faciem claro praefert Jumine, in cordis nostri marsupium recondatur.
Omnia probate, quod bonum est tenete—estote probati nummularij, ut si quis nummus adulter est, & figuram Caesaris non habet, nec signatus est moneta publica, reprobetur, qui autem Christi faciem claro praefert Iumine, in cordis nostri marsupium recondatur.
The Churches Charter. Containing Two Parts, 1. The Constitution of particular visible Churches. 2. The Privileges and Power given to such Churches.
The Churches Charter. Containing Two Parts, 1. The Constitution of particular visible Churches. 2. The Priviledges and Power given to such Churches.
Before I proceed to examine Mr. Paget's arguing for the Ecclesiastical Juridical Power of Classes, I shall positively declare what power is given by Christ to particular Churches, after I have described their constitution according to Christ his appointment. In every of which particulars I shall principally insist in the metaphor of a Corporation or body politic, such as that of the chiefest and most perfect Cities is: because I find, that it pleaseth the Holy Ghost in Scripture, frequently to express this matter under this similitude.