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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.
2. If the case be reducible to what is noted in the third Corollary, there you may find a sufficient Remedy prescribed, according to Congregational Principles, without his remove.
3. In some Cases, a mischief is to be ⟨p. 179⟩chosen, before an inconvenience, as Lawyers speak. Better it is that the Church want a Remedy for a Case that may not happen in a mans life, than to be under the continual droppings of Classical Jurisdiction over them in all Cases.
4. We have formerly proved, that Classical Jurisdiction is so far from being helpful to Churches, that it frustrates Christs grant of Power to particular Churches in re propriâ.
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