A39224:104
Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches
Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils constituted in order according to the Scriptures as also the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular Reforming Congregational Churches, humbly proposed as ... a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties the Presbyterians and the Congregationals ... / written by John Eliot.Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils constituted in order according to the Scriptures as also the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular Reforming Congregationall Churches, humbly proposed as ... a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties the Presbyterians and the Congregationals ... / written by John Eliot.
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
If all the Churches must choose, then Immediately, or • Delegates: Immediately, it is unfeasible, especially to act in knowledge and prudence; but mediately by their Confidants and Representatives they may.
If all the Churches must chuse, then Immediately, or • Delegates: Immediately, it is unfeizible, especially to act in knowledge and prudence; but mediately by their Confidents and Representatives they may.
The same may be said of the Communion of all the Churches in a Nation or Province, where Elections must •e performed by Representatives. In which way, a General and Equal Election is attainable; and without it, it doth not yet appear that it is attainable.
Now that several Nations ought to hold Communion, and also all the Churches in a Nation, it doth appear in these Scriptures: Isa. 19. 23, 24, 25. Zeph. 3. 9. 1 Cor. 11. 1•. & 14. 32, 36. Of which see more in Synod at Boston.