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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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2. Consect. Then it is not in the power of Earthly Kings or States, or Civil Courts, to make Ecclesiastical Laws, or to invent and impose any Rites or Forms of Worship upon Churches, according to Principles of State-Policy, or Humane Prudence. Though Moses was, as well a great Prophet, as a great Prince, yet God left no part of the building of the Tabernacle to his prudence, but limited him in all things to the pattern in the Mount, Exod. 25.40. Nor might Solomon, though the wisest of mere men, act by his own wisdom in building the Temple,1 but he was guided therein by the perfect pattern, which David gave him from the Spirit. So concerning Christian Churches, Christ hath given his People a perfect pattern, ⟨p. 8⟩which he requireth the Ministers to hold forth distinctly in every point of it, to his people; according to that Prophecy in Ezek. 43.10, 11. That they may keep the whole Form thereof, and all the Ordinances thereof, and do them; which also Christ expressly requireth in Matth. 28.19, 20.
2. Consect. Then it is not in the power of Earthly Kings or States, or Civil Courts, to make Ecclesiastical Laws, or to invent and impose any Rites or Forms of Worship upon Churches, according to Principles of State-Policy, or Humane Prudence. Though Moses was, as well a great Prophet, as a great Prince, yet God left no part of the building of the Tabernacle to his prudence, but limited him in all things to the pattern in the Mount, Exod. 25.40. Nor might Solomon, though the wisest of meer men, act by his own wisdom in building the Temple,1 but he was guided therein by the perfect pattern, which David gave him from the Spirit. So concerning Christian Churches, Christ hath given his People a perfect pattern, ⟨p. 8⟩