CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church

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That which is now driven at, is not that all wicked and unclean persons should be utterly excluded from our Ecclesiastical Societies, and so from all hearing of Gods Word; Yea there is nothing less intended: For the Word of God is the instrument as well of conversion as of confirmation, and therefore is to be Preached as well to the not converted as to the ⟨p. 11⟩converted, as well to the repenting as the unrepenting: The Temple indeed of Jerusalem had special promises, as it were pointing out with the finger a Communion with God through Christ, 1 King. 8. 30, 48. Dan. 6. 10. 2 Chron. 6. 16. and 7. 15, 16. But tis far otherwise with our Temples, or places of Church Assemblies, because our Temples contain nothing Sacramental in them, such as the Tabernacle and Temple contained; as the most learned Professors of Leiden said rightly, in Synops. Purr. Thelogie Disput. 48. Thes. 47.

That which is now driven at, is not that all wicked and unclean persons should be utterly excluded from our Ecclesiasticall Societies, and so from all hearing of Gods Word; Yea there is nothing lesse intended: For the Word of God is the instrument as well of conversion as of confirmation, and therefore is to bee Preached as well to the not converted as to the ⟨p. 11⟩converted, as well to the repenting as the unrepenting: The Temple indeed of Jerusalem had speciall promises, as it were pointing out with the finger a Communion with God through Christ,