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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.
yet the Lord, being faithful in his Covenant unto their forefathers, did not cast them off, but called them to repentance, and renewed his Covenant, in a more Evangelical manner, in the plains of Moab, that he might ⟨p. 32⟩establish them to be his People, and their little ones, and the strangers, Deut. 29.10-14. which Covenant they took hold of, for themselves and their seed, and for them that were not there with them, that day, v. 15. that they would admit none unto Church-fellowship with them, but such as should separate themselves from the pollutions of the Heathen, and enter into the common engagement with them, to cleave to the Lord, and to one another, with member-like love, watchfulness and submission mutually. Hence it was, that the sin of one Achan became the sin and punishment of all Israel, Josh. 7.11, 12.
yet the Lord, being faithful in his Covenant unto their forefathers, did not cast them off, but called them to repentance, and renewed his Covenant, in a more Evangelical manner, in the plains of Moab, that he might ⟨p. 32⟩establish them to be his People, and their little ones, and the strangers, Deut. 29.10-14. which Covenant they took hold of, for themselves and their seed, and for them that were not there with them, that day, v. 15. that they would admit none unto Church-fellowship with them, but such as should separate themselves from the polutions of the Heathen, and enter into the common engagement with them, to cleave to the Lord, and to one another, with member-like love, watchfulness and submission mutually. Hence it was, that the sin of one Achan became the sin and punishment of all Israel, Josh. 7.11, 12.