A53671:371
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.
What in general is required unto the fitting of any persons to be members of a visible Church of Christ, was before declared, and that is, that, which the Lord Jesus hath made the indispensable condition of entering into his Kingdom, namely of being born again. John 3.33. ⟨p. 215⟩This work being secret, hidden, and invisible, the Church cannot judge of directly and in its own form or nature, but in the means, effects, and consequents of it, which are to be testified unto it concerning them who are to be admitted unto its fellowship and communion; it is required therefore of them,
What in general is required unto the fitting of any persons to be members of a visible Church of Christ, was before declared, and that is, that, which the Lord Jesus hath made the indispensible condition of entring into his Kingdom, namely of being born again. John 3.33. ⟨p. 215⟩This worke being secret, hidden, and invisible, the Church cannot judge of directly and in its own form or nature, but in the means, effects, and consequents of it, which are to be testified unto it concerning them who are to be admitted unto its fellowship and communion; it is required therefore of them,