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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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Concl. 3 It is the will and appointment of Jesus Christ, our Lord, that his Churches, under the New Testament, be constituted, in respect of their essential form, by the public mutual covenanting of the Saints, with the Lord, and one with another.
Concl. 3 It is the will and appointment of Jesus Christ, our Lord, that his Churches, under the New Testament, be constituted, in respect of their essential form, by the publick mutual covenanting of the Saints, with the Lord, and one with another.
Though all men seem to grant, that every Church of Christ hath its being from a Covenant (for which cause, they that want an explicit Covenant, do yet plead their implicit Covenant to maintain the truth of their Church-state) yet such disputes are raised against the Church Covenant, that I am compelled to handle this point also the more largely, that the truth concerning it, may be the better cleared and settled. I shall therefore, with the help of Christ, show, 1. To what end it serveth; 2. what it imports; 3. prove it to be the Ordinance of Christ; 4. draw some consectaries from the Conclusion.
Though all men seem to grant, that every Church of Christ hath its being from a Covenant (for which cause, they that want an explicite Covenant, do yet plead their implicite Covenant to maintain the truth of their Church-state) yet such disputes are raised against the Church Covenant, that I am compelled to handle this point also the more largely, that the truth concerning it, may be the better cleared and setled. I shall therefore, with the help of Christ, shew, 1. To what end it serveth; 2. what it imports; 3. prove it to be the Ordinance of Christ; 4. draw some consectaries from the Conclusion.
1. The next end of their confederating is, to engage themselves to submit one to another in the Lord, & to cleave to Christ and his Rules, and to one another in him, mutually, and to walk together, accordingly, in the use of all means sanctified and appointed by him for attaining the ends of Church-communion.