A53671:150
A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of…
A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers.
London : s.n., 1667
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.
Seventhly, Much of the writings of the Apostles in those Epistles directed to those Churches, consists in rules, precepts, instructions, and exhortations for the guidance and preservation of them in purity, and order, with their continuance in a condition of due obedience unto the Lord Christ. To this end do they so fully and largely acquaint the Rulers and Members of them with their mutual duty in that especial relation wherein they stand to each other, as also of all persons in particular in what is required of them by virtue of their Membership in any particular society; as may be seen at large in sundry of Pauls Epistles. And to give more strength hereunto, our Lord Jesus Christ in the revelation that he made of his mind and will personally after his ascension into Heaven, insisted principally about the condition, order and preservation of particular Churches; not taking notice of any of his Disciples not belonging to them, or ⟨p. 103⟩joined with them. These he warns, reproves, instructs, threatens, commands, all in order unto their walking before him in the condition of particular Churches, Rev. 2. and (3.) at large.
Seventhly, Much of the writings of the Apostles in those Epistles directed to those Churches, consists in rules, precepts, instructions, and exhortations for the guidance and preservation of them in purity, and order, with their continuance in a condition of due obedience unto the Lord Christ. To this end do they so fully and largely acquaint the Rulers and Members of them with their mutual duty in that especial relation wherein they stand to each other, as also of all persons in particular in what is required of them by vertue of their Membership in any particular society; as may be seen at large in sundry of Pauls Epistles. And to give more strength hereunto, our Lord Jesus Christ in the revelation that he made of his mind and will personally after his ascension into Heaven, insisted principally about the condition, order and preservation of particular Churches; not taking notice of any of his Disciples not belonging to them, or ⟨p. 103⟩joyned with them. These he warns, reproves, instructs, threatens, commands, all in order unto their walking before him in the condition of particular Churches,