A52591:261
A Declaration of the faith and order owned and practiced in the Congregational churches…
A Declaration of the faith and order owned and practiced in the Congregational churches in England agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers in their meeting at the Savoy, October 12, 1658.
London: printed by John Field, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
III.
The revelation of the Gospel unto sinners made in divers times, and by sundry parts, with the addition of Promises and Precepts for the obedience required therein, as to the Nations and persons to whom it is granted, is merely of the Sovereign will and good pleasure of God, not being annexed by virtue of any promise to the due improvement ⟨p. 35⟩of mens natural abilities, by virtue of common light received without it, which none ever did make, or can so do: And therefore in all ages the Preaching of the Gospel hath been granted unto Persons and Nations, as to the extent or straitening of it, in great variety, according to the Counsel of the Will of God.
The revelation of the Gospel unto sinners made in divers times, and by sundry parts, with the addition of Promises and Precepts for the obedience required therein, as to the Nations and persons to whom it is granted, is meerly of the Soveraign will and good pleasure of God, not being annexed by vertue of any promise to the due improvement ⟨p. 35⟩of mens natural abilities, by vertue of common light received without it, which none ever did make, or can so do: And therefore in all ages the Preaching of the Gospel hath been granted unto Persons and Nations, as to the extent or straitning of it, in great variety, according to the Counsel of the Will of God.