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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
Part 1 › Chapter 4: Concerning the quantity and compass of a Christian Church.
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. 1 The first Reason is from the end of Church-fellowship, which is mutual edification, in the use of the means instituted by Christ thereunto. Let all things be done unto edification, 1. Cor. 14.26. but how can this be attained, unless they so meet together, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. v. 13? Hence all the Members of the Church are exhorted, not to forsake their assembling together, Heb. 10.25. which was the praise of the primitive Church in Jerusalem, Act. 2.42, 44. Therefore a particular visible Church is compared to a flock, which are fed together, Act. 20.28; and to an House or Family, the members whereof enjoy the same Family-privileges in common, under the same family-order; 1 Tim. 3.15.
Reas. 1 The first Reason is from the end of Church-fellowship, which is mutual edification, in the use of the means instituted by Christ thereunto. Let all things be done unto edification, 1. Cor. 14.26. but how can this be attained, unless they so meet together, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. v. 13? Hence all the Members of the Church are exhorted, not to forsake their assembling together, Heb. 10.25. which was the praise of the primitive Church in Jerusalem, Act. 2.42, 44. Therefore a particular visible Church is compared to a flock, which are fed together, Act. 20.28; and to an House or Family, the members whereof injoy the same Family-priviledges in common, under the same family-order; 1 Tim. 3.15.