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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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3. Ezekiels vision concerning the new Temple, is generally acknowledged to be an Evangelical prophecy, which I have also else where demonstrate by infallible reasons: But I conceive the Sectaries of this time, who cry down the Ministry and Ordination, do not nor will not deny it. Sure I am such a material Temple as is described in that vision, never yet was. Now among other things, it is there prophesied concerning the Ministers of the Gospel, Ezek: 44. 16. They shall enter into my Sanctuary, and they shall come near unto my table to Minister unto me; and they shall keep my charge. Whereof we can make no Gospel sense, except it belong to the charge of Ministers, lawfully called and entered into that work, to administer the Sacraments, and namely that of the Lords Supper at his Table. These Ministers are also in that Chapter plainly distinguished from the people, or children of Israel, vers: 15. 19, 22, 23, 28.
3. Ezekiels vision concerning the new Temple, is generally acknowledged to bee an Evangelicall prophesie, which I have also else where demonstrate by infallible reasons: But I conceave the Sectaries of this time, who cry downe the Ministery and Ordination, doe not nor will not deny it. Sure I am such a materiall Temple as is described in that vision, never yet was. Now among other things, it is there prophesied concerning the Ministers of the Gospell, Ezek: 44. 16. They shall enter into my Sanctuarie, and they shall come near unto my table to Minister unto me; and they shall keep my charge. Whereof we can make no Gospell sence, except it belong to the charge of Ministers, lawfully called and entered into that work, to administer the Sacraments, and namelie that of the Lords Supper at his Table. These Ministers are also in that Chapter plainly distinguished from the people, or children of Israel, vers: 15. 19, 22, 23, 28.
4. The Sacraments are seals of the righteousness of faith, or covenant of grace, as Divines commonly speak, borrowing the phrase from Rom: 4. 11. This truly hath been justly accounted so necessary, that both the Houses of Parliament after consultation, had with the Assembly of Divines, did by the Ordinance dated, Octob: 20. 1645. appoint that who ever ⟨p. 89⟩