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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
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Nor is Christ the Head only of the Catholic Church, but also of every particular Church instituted by him, which is therefore frequently by Christ himself called, the Kingdom of God, and of Heaven, the King whereof is Christ; his Subjects are visible Believers, professing their Faith ⟨p. 7⟩in him, and their subjection to his Laws, and Ordinances, 2 Cor. 9.13. This Sovereign power is so properly Christs, that it is not communicable to any Creature; nor can any man be his Substitute or Vicar herein. For neither doth Christ, or his Church need such a Vicar, or visible Head of the Church, seeing the Church is complete in Christ alone, Col. 2.10. Nor is any Creature capable of discharging the Office of an Head unto the Church, Ephes. 1.20, 21, 22, 23.
Nor is Christ the Head only of the Catholick Church, but also of every particular Church instituted by him, which is therefore frequently by Christ himself called, the Kingdom of God, and of Heaven, the King whereof is Christ; his Subjects are visible Believers, professing their Faith ⟨p. 7⟩in him, and their subjection to his Laws, and Ordinances, 2 Cor. 9.13. This Soveraign power is so properly Christs, that it is not communicable to any Creature; nor can any man be his Substitute or Vicar herein. For neither doth Christ, or his Church need such a Vicar, or visible Head of the Church, seeing the Church is compleat in Christ alone, Col. 2.10. Nor is any Creature capable of discharging the Office of an Head unto the Church, Ephes. 1.20, 21, 22, 23.