A39224:242
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.
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But Revenue and Profit are separable from the Work, •d must be religiously and earnestly▪ kept off▪ It being a Wor• that will surely▪ corrupt• this blessed Work, and glorious Service of Jesur Christ.
But Revenue and Profit are separable from the Work, •d must be religiously and earnestly▪ kept off▪ It being a Wor• that will surely▪ corrupt• this blessed Work, and glorious Service of Iesur Christ.
IV. A small Revenue will maintain the government of Churches by Councils, even in a great Nation, in comparison of the vast revenues which the Antichristian Hierarchy hav• fa•ed and enriched themselves withal: which also hath advantaged them to arrogate unto themselves, and […] civil Authority. And by these carnal […] unto the Church, Religion hath been corrupted, most men have been damned, and •ew saved. Therefore the Church ought now, in our reformation and resurrection, to despise the World, and▪ not to suffer great revenues to be annexed unto this part of the kingdom of Christ especially.
IV. A small Revenue will maintain the government of Churches by Councils, even in a great Nation, in comparison of the vast revenues which the Antichristian Hierarchy hav faed and inriched themselves withall: which also hath advantaged them to arrogate unto themselves, and civil Authority. And by these carnal unto the Church, Religion hath been corrupted, most men have been damned, and ew saved. Therefore the Church ought now, in our reformation and resrection, to despise the World, and not to suffer great revenues to be annexed unto this part of the kingdome of Christ especially.