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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.
I Query, what reason, or ground, hath any Man to refuse Communion with a Church that Christ hath not left, but hath Communion with?
I Quaery, what reason, or ground, hath any Man to refuse Communion with a Church that Christ hath not left, but hath Communion with?
XV. When any Member shall divulge, or make known to Persons, not of the Congregation, nor being concerned in those matters ⟨p. 51⟩what is done in Church-meetings, the Church in this respect (as well as in others) is to be as a Garden enclosed, a Spring shut up, a Fountain sealed. This oft times occasions great Grief,1 and the disorderly Person should be detected. Is it not a shame to any of a private Family, to divulge the Secrets of the Family? But far greater shame do these expose themselves unto.
XV. When any Member shall divulge, or make known to Persons, not of the Congregation, nor being concerned in those matters ⟨p. 51⟩what is done in Church-meetings, the Church in this respect (as well as in others) is to be as a Garden inclosed, a Spring shut up, a Fountain sealed. This oft times occasions great Grief,1 and the disorderly Person should be detected. Is it not a shame to any of a private Family, to divulge the Secrets of the Family? But far greater shame do these expose themselves unto.