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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.
1. The principal efficient cause is noted in this clause, I will build my Church.] I? who is that? even he, whom Peter had confessed in these words, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. That is, Jesus our Mediator. 1. He speaks in the first Person, not in the second: For though he useth men as his instruments, yet himself, by his Spirit, buildeth his Church, Zach. 4.6. Therefore it is called, his Building, 1 Cor. 3.9. 2. He speaks not in the preter, or present tense, but in the future [I will build.] For though Christ was yesterday, is to day, and shall be ever, the builder of his Church; yet he thus speaketh in a particular respect to the Christian Churches under the New-Testament, ⟨p. 4⟩which should be built (after his Ascension) of Jews and Gentiles joined into one body, upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, Jesus Christ being the Corner-Stone, &c. Ephes. 2.20, 21, 22. The Conclusion hence is,
1. THe principal efficient cause is noted in this clause, I will build my Church.] I? who is that? even he, whom Peter had confessed in these words, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. That is, Jesus our Mediator. 1. He speaks in the first Person, not in the second: For though he useth men as his instruments, yet himself, by his Spirit, buildeth his Church, Zach. 4.6. Therefore it is called, his Building, 1 Cor. 3.9. 2. He speaks not in the preter, or present tense, but in the future [I will build.] For though Christ was yesterday, is to day, and shall be ever, the builder of his Church; yet he thus speaketh in a particular respect to the Christian Churches under the New-Testament, ⟨p. 4⟩which should be built (after his Ascension) of Jews and Gentiles joyned into one body, upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, Jesus Christ being the Corner-Stone, &c.