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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
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VI. Twenty three Nations met in one Council, will be a great glory to Christ, and by what hath yet been in the world▪ may be called Ecumenical. Yet when the Kingdoms of this world, shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, I know not but there will be Councils above this. Nay; why may there▪ not be Twelve Ascents in combining all the World? Rev. 21. 16, 17. But I leave it to the Lord. At present this is the top, and uppermost Order of Councils▪ and somewhat higher then we can yet well descry: but Faith in the Promise can see all the world in the Gospel Order of Jesus Christ. And now the Lord Jesus is triumphing in his Militant Glory upon earth, with his Twenty four Elders about him, in Ecclesiastical visible Order. And now the whole Militant Body, fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working of the measure of every part from Christ, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of it self in love, Ephes. 4. 16.
VI. Twenty three Nations met in one Council, will be a great glory to Christ, and by what hath yet been in the world▪ may be called Oecumenical. Yet when the Kingdomes of this world, shall become the Kingdomes of our Lord, and of his Christ, I know not but there will be Councils above this. Nay; why may there▪ not be Twelve Ascents in combining all the World? Rev. 21. 16, 17. But I leave it to the Lord. At present this is the top, and uppermost Order of Councils▪ and somewhat higher then we can yet well descry: but Faith in the Promise can see all the world in the Gospel Order of Iesus Christ. And now the Lord Jesus is triumphing in his Militant Glory upon earth, with his Twenty four Elders about him, in Ecclesiastical visible Order. And now the whole Militant Body, fitly joyned together, and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth, according to the effectual working of the measure of every part from Christ, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of it self in love,