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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.
Consider it is Theft, or Robbery; nay, and 'tis worse than to Rob a Man of his Goods, because thou takest away that which perhaps thou canst not restore again.
Moreover consider, That such who reproach others, lay themselves open thereby to Reproach.
3. Moreover know, he that Receives, or Hearkens to the Scandal, is as Guilty as the Accuser; he is like a Person that receives Stolen Goods, and so is as bad as the Thief.
This being one of the Grand and Notorious Evils of these Days I speak the more to it.
If you abominate this evil, and avoid it, you will shine in Grace ⟨p. 61⟩