A53671:206
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.
Explication.
The answer unto this Question explains the power or authority of the Elders of the Church, from whom they do receive it, and how it is exercised by them; the right stating whereof is of great importance in the whole discipline of the Church, and must therefore here be farther explained: to this end we may consider,
First, that all Church power is originally vested in Jesus Christ the sole head, and Monarch thereof. God the Father hath committed it unto him, and entrusted him with it for the accomplishment of his work of mediation, Matth. 28.18.
First, that all Church power is originally vested in Jesus Christ the sole head, and Monarch thereof. God the Father hath committed it unto him, and intrusted him with it for the accomplishment of his work of mediation, Matth. 28.18.
Secondly, that he doth communicate of this authority by way of trust, to be exercised by them in his name, unto persons by him appointed, so much as is needful for the ordering and disposing of all things in his Churches, unto the blessed ends for which he hath