A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of…

The means appointed by our Lord Jesus Christ for the continuance and increase of the Church, are either preparatory unto it, or instrumentally efficient of it. The principal means subservient or preparatory unto the continuance and increase of the Church, is the preaching of the Word to the conviction, illumination and conversion of sinners, whereby they may be made meet to become living stones in this spiritual building, and members of the mystical body of Christ. And this is done either ordinarily in the Assemblies of the Church, towards such as come in unto them and attend to the Word dispensed according to the appointment of Christ amongst them, 1 Cor. 14.24, 25. If there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he he is judged of all, and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest, and so falling down on his face, he will worship ⟨p. 212⟩God; or occasionally amongst the Men of the World, Acts 8.4.

The means appointed by our Lord Jesus Christ for the continuance and increase of the Church, are either preparitory unto it, or instrumentally efficient of it. The principal means subservient or preparitory unto the continuance and increase of the Church, is the preaching of the Word to the conviction, illumination and conversion of sinners, whereby they may be made meet to become living stones in this spiritual building, and members of the mystical body of Christ. And this is done either ordinarily in the Assemblies of the Church, towards such as come in unto them and attend to the Word dispensed according to the appointment of Christ amongst them,