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The glory of a true church, and its discipline displayed wherein a true gospel-church…The glory of a true church, and its discipline display'd wherein a true gospel-church…
The glory of a true church, and its discipline displayed wherein a true gospel-church is described : together with the power of the keys, and who are to be let in, and who to be shut out / by Benjamin Keach.The glory of a true church, and its discipline display'd wherein a true gospel-church is described : together with the power of the keys, and who are to be let in, and who to be shut out / by Benjamin Keach.
London : s.n., 1697
To the Baptized Churches, particularly to that under my Care.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Matter or Materials with which it is built are Lively Stones, •. e. Converted Persons: Also the Matter and Form must be according to the Rule and Pattern showed in •he Mount, I mean Christ's Institution, and the Apostolical Churches Constitution, and not after Mens Inventions.
The Matter or Materials with which it is built are Lively Stones, •. e. Converted Persons: Also the Matter and Form must be according to the Rule and Pattern shewed in •he Mount, I mean Christ's Institution, and the Apostolical Churches Constitution, and not after Mens Inventions.
Now some Men, because the Typical Church of the Jews was National, and took in their Carnal Seed (as such) therefore the same Mat•er and Form they would have under the Gospel.
Now some Men, because the Ty•ical Church of the Jews was Na•ional, and took in their Carnal Seed (as such) therefore the same Mat•er and Form they would have under the Gospel.
But tho a Church be rightly built in both these respects, i.e. of fit Matter and right Form, yet without a regular and orderly Discipline, it will ⟨p. iv⟩soon lose its Beauty, and be polluted.