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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.
CHAP. II. Concerning the Material Cause.
The Materials whereof this Spiritual Building must consist, are implied, when Christ saith, Upon this Rock will I build, &c. together with Peters confession, in ver. 16. and Christ's approbation of it, ver. 17. which gave occasion to this Speech of Christ, Upon this Rock, &c. For the Rock is Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 3.11. But how considered? not simply, and in an abstract sense; but, 1. As Preached by the Ministry of the Gospel, Ephes. 2.20. 2. As believed on with a Faith made visible by public confession, according to Rom. 10.9, 10. Christ believed on, is the Foundation, or Rock, of the Catholic invisible Church: But Christ believed ⟨p. 10⟩on and confessed, is the Rock whereupon a particular visible Church is built. In this Exposition, sundry of the Ancient Writers,(a) and the Orthodox Modern, generally consent.
THe Materials whereof this Spiritual Building must consist, are implyed, when Christ saith, Ʋpon this Rock will I build, &c. together with Peters confession, in ver. 16. and Christ's approbation of it, ver. 17. which gave occasion to this Speech of Christ, Ʋpon this Rock, &c. For the Rock is Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 3.11. But how considered? not simply, and in an abstract sense; but, 1. As Preached by the Ministry of the Gospel, Ephes. 2.20. 2. As believed on with a Faith made visible by publick confession, according to