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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.
Reas. 2 From the Apostles manner of planting Christian Churches, after the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ. Their custom it was, when they had converted many to Christ, to join them together into one Congregation, by covenanting with the Lord and his People, for themselves and their Children.
Reas. 2 From the Apostles manner of planting Christian Churches, after the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ. Their custom it was, when they had converted many to Christ, to joyn them together into one Congregation, by covenanting with the Lord and his People, for themselves and their Children.
Object. Against this assertion, some object, that in the planting of the Church at Samaria, in Cornelius his house, at Philippi, Corinth, Ephesus, Thessalonica, &c. they find no mention of such a Covenant as the Doctrine intendeth, only that they believed, professed, and were Baptised, but no mention ⟨p. 33⟩of an express vocal Covenant.
Object. Against this assertion, some object, that in the planting of the Church at Samaria, in Cornelius his house, at Phillippi, Corinth, Ephesus, Thessalonica, &c. they find no mention of such a Covenant as the Doctrine intendeth, only that they believed, professed, and were Baptised, but no mention ⟨p. 33⟩of an express vocal Covenant.
Answ. 1 1. Though it be not mentioned in those Texts, yet it may be in others. 2. We need not be solicitous about the words, if the thing be found there. 3. And that the thing is to be found there, it may be evinced three ways: 1. From their being baptised. 2. From the phrases. 3. From the similitudes, which import their covenanting together. 1. From their being baptized, which presupposeth, that they were first made Disciples, because their Commission required that,