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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 The Spiritual blessings communicated by Christ unto Believers, through the Covenant of Grace, are of two sorts. 1. Internal, viz. Adoption, Justification, Sanctification, &c. together with the blessed right unto all the outward good things of this life, 1 Tim. 4.8. and a remote or mediate right unto Church-privileges. These, all Believers have from Christ by the Covenant of Grace, as they are Believers in ⟨p. 41⟩sincerity and truth, in the sight of God. 2. External, viz. Church-fellowship, and power of the Keys, &c. These, visible Believers have from Christ, through the Covenant of Grace, as they are confederates, and joined with the Church by taking hold of the Covenant. This difference is between them; The former are limited to the persons of true Believers in the sight of God, Hab. 2.4. The latter are given to a society of true Believers, in the account of the Church, and are extended to their seed also, Exod. 20.6.
Answ. 1 The Spiritual blessings communicated by Christ unto Believers, through the Covenant of Grace, are of two sorts. 1. Internal, viz. Adoption, Justification, Sanctification, &c. together with the blessed right unto all the outward good things of this life, 1 Tim. 4.8. and a remote or mediate right unto Church-priviledges. These, all Believers have from Christ by the Covenant of Grace, as they are Believers in ⟨p. 41⟩sincerity and truth, in the sight of God. 2. External, viz. Church-fellowship, and power of the Keys, &c. These, visible Believers have from Christ, through the Covenant of Grace, as they are confederates, and joyned with the Church by taking hold of the Covenant. This difference is between them; The former are limited to the persons of true Believers in the sight of God, Hab. 2.4. The latter are given to a society of true Believers, in the account of the Church, and are extended to their seed also,