A53671:391
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.
Churches being gathered and settled according to the mind of Christ, ought to preserve a mutual holy communion among themselves, and to exercise it, in the discharge of those duties whereby their mutual good and edification may be promoted. For whereas they are all united under one Head the Lord Christ, Ephes. 1.22, 23. in the same faith and order, Ephes. 4.5. And do walk by the same rule, they stand in such a relation one to another, as is the ground of the communion spoken of. Now the principal ways, whereby they exercise this communion, are the acts and duties enumerated in the answer unto this Question; as,
Churches being gathered and setled according to the mind of Christ, ought to preserve a mutual holy communion among themselves, and to exercise it, in the discharge of those duties whereby their mutuall good and edification may be promoted. For whereas they are all united under one Head the Lord Christ, Ephes. 1.22, 23. in the same faith and order, Ephes. 4.5. And do walk by the same rule, they stand in such a relation one to another, as is the ground of the communion spoken of. Now the principal wayes, whereby they exercise this communion, are the acts and duties enumerated in the answer unto this Question; as,