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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.
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, Mat. 28.19. where, to make Disciples, is as much as to gather and plant Churches, by visible bringing men into Christs school, with engagement, by those of years, for themselves and their seed, to submit unto Christs teaching and government therein. This school of Christ is the Church of God, whence the members of Christian Churches are called, Disciples, in Act. 15.10. So then, they were in Church-fellowship, before they were baptised.
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 wayes: 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, Mat. 28.19. where, to make Disciples, is as much as to gather and plant Churches, by visible bringing men into Christs school, with engagement, by those of years, for themselves and their seed, to submit unto Christs teaching and government therein. This school of Christ is the Church of God, whence the members of Christian Churches are called, Disciples, in Act. 15.10. So then, they were in Church-fellowship, before they were baptised.