A39224:215
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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3. The Notaries are orderly to propose all the matters▪ presented by the Provincial Councils, when the Moderator requireth the same. Care being had, that the persons concerned be present, and have free and competent liberty to argue, answer, object, in due, reverent, and modest manner, and to do what may be necessary for the finding out of the truth.
4. If there be no Cases transmitted to them, nor Appeals, the affairs of all the Churches in the Nation are presently issued, with glory and praise to the Lord Jesus, the King of Peace.
4. If there be no Cases transmitted to them, nor Appeals, the affairs of all the Churches in the Nation are presently issued, with glory and praise to the Lord Iesus, the King of Peace.
5. If any other person or persons within the Nation, or of any other Nation, have any Cases or Questions about Religion, they may now have liberty of proposing the same, to receive an answer.
6. If any Cases of difficulty be such, as that they cannot obtain an issue, and resolution satisfactory, then the Case must be recorded, and stay until by further consideration and discussion, God shall please to reveal further light therein, because there is no Higher Council to appeal unto for light, within the Nation. And in such cases, so the Apostles did walk, and teach the Churches to walk, Phil 3. 15, 16. Let us therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereunto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same things.