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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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2. Though the Covenant of Grace received by us, binds us to all Christian duties required in the Gospel, yet it binds us also to do them in the due order: for God is the God of order, and not of confusion. Therefore such duties as issue from voluntary relations, must be done only by those who stand in such relations. Will any Man or Woman infer from his or her being in the Covenant of Grace, that therefore there is no need or use of a conjugal Covenant, but that he hath right to all Women, and she to all Men, to perform conjugal duties with them, where ever they come, though they are not joined to any of them by a conjugal Covenant? The like reason is of all other duties ⟨p. 42⟩which are founded in other voluntary relations; as between Masters and Servants, Pastor and People, Corporations and the Members of them, particular Churches and their Members. Therefore the Covenant of Grace binds all Believers to such mutual covenanting together, as is necessary for the orderly discharge of the several duties that are to be performed by virtue of such a state and relation. Thus the conclusion is proved.
2. Though the Covenant of Grace received by us, binds us to all Christian duties required in the Gospel, yet it bindes us also to do them in the due order: for God is the God of •rder, and not of confusion. Therefore such duties as issue from voluntary relations, must be done only by those who stand in such relations. Will any Man or Woman infer from his or her being in the Covenant of Grace, that therefore there is no need or use of a conjugal Covenant, but that he hath right to all Women, and she to all Men, to perform conjugal duties with them, where ever they come, though they are not joyned to any of them by a conjugal Covenant? The like reason is of all other duties ⟨p. 42⟩which are founded in other voluntary relations; as between Masters and Servants, Pastor and People, Corporations and the Members of them, particular Churches and their Members. Therefore the Covenant of Grace binds all Believers to such mutual covenanting together, as is necessary for the orderly discharge of the several duties that are to be performed by vertue of such a state and relation. Thus the conclusion is proved.