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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
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.
This I find is generally asserted by all Congregational Divines,1 or worthy men, i. e. That no person hath power to dismember himself: i. e. He cannot, without great Sin, translate himself from one Church to another; but ought to have a Dismission from that Church where he is a Member:2 provided that Church is orderly constituted, nothing being wanting as to any Essential of Salvation; or of Church-Communion: But if not, yet he ought to endeavour ⟨p. 40⟩to get his orderly Di• mission.
THis I find is generally asserted by all Congregational Divines,1 or worthy men, i. e. That no person hath power to dismember himself: i. e. He cannot, without great Sin, translate himself from one Church to another; but ought to have a Dismission from that Church where he is a Member:2 provided that Church is orderly constituted, nothing being wanting as to any Essential of Salvation; or of Church-Communion: But if not, yet he ought to indeavour ⟨p. 40⟩to get his orderly Di• mission.
- 1The cause of Disorders in the Church.
- 2Rom, 6, 17. Heb, 6, 2, 3