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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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III▪ The administration of, and participation in all these Ordinances, (while we are in this flesh, and state militant) are in full of variety of difficulties and temptations, especially where Churches are numerous, that the work cannot long be carried on (a while it sometimes may, viz. while ⟨p. 3⟩the Churches are under the eye of an adversary, and when there be Elders eminent in Piety, Humility and Ability) without stated help.
III▪ The administration of, and participation in all these Ordi•ances, (while we are in this flesh, and state militant) are in full of variety of difficulties and temptations, especially where Churches are numerous, that the work cannot long be carried on (a while it sometimes may, viz. while ⟨p. 3⟩the Churches are under the eye of an adversary, and when there be Elders eminent in Piety, Humility and Ability) without stated help.
The help which the Lord hath instituted, is Counsel.
When Antioch had trouble in some points of Doctrine, the Remedy which the holy Ghost applied, was Counsel▪ given them by a formal Council, Acts 15.
When Antiech had trouble in some points of Doctrine, the Remedy which the holy Ghost applied, was Counsel given them by a formall Council,