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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.
They delivered him to Satan, in the Name, and with the Power of the Lord Jesus, v. 4. and that is the highest Power. 2. The end and use of it was, for the destruction of the flesh, that his Spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, v. 5. which argueth, that it proceedeth from a power of binding in Heaven, as well as on Earth. 3. When God blessed this sentence, by making it effectual to work Repentance in him, Paul exhorteth the whole Church to release and forgive him, 2 Cor. 2.6-10. and doth not claim the Power over them of a Superior Judge, to absolve him by his own sentence, without them: Nor did he write to the Elders of sundry Churches, but only to that particular Church, both Elders and Brethren, and thereby acknowledgeth ⟨p. 122⟩the Power of Ecclesiastical Judgment to be so fully in them, that, As their not putting it into act retarded the sentence before, and their putting of it into act was a Judicial Act in them all, ye judge them that are within, 1 Cor. 5.12. So, their forgiving him would be a Legal and Judicial acquitting him from tha• sentence, 2 Cor. 2. This Church is our pattern, and its practice in this is presidential to all particular Churches of Christ.
They delivered him to Satan, in the Name, and with the Power of the Lord Jesus, v. 4. and that is the highest Power. 2. The end and use of it was, for the destruction of the flesh, that his Spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, v. 5. which argueth, that it proceedeth from a power of binding in Heaven, as well as on Earth. 3. When God blessed this sentence, by making it effectual to work Repentance in him, Paul exhorteth the whole Church to release and forgive him, 2 Cor. 2.6-10. and doth not claim the Power over them of a Superiour Judge, to absolve him by his own sentence, without them: Nor did he write to the Elders of sundry Churches, but only to that particular Church, both Elders and Brethren, and thereby acknowledgeth ⟨p. 122⟩