A53671:401
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.
Lastly, Whereas the Churches have all of them one common faith, and are all obliged to hold forth and declare it to all men as they have opportunity, 1 Tim. 3.15. to testify this their mutual communion, their interest in the same faith and hope, for the more open declaration and proposition of the truths of the Gospel which they profess, and for the vindication both of the truth, and themselves, from false charges and imputations, they may, and if God give opportunity, ought to join together in declaring and testifying their joint consent and fellowship in the same doctrine of faith, expressed in a form of sound words.
Lastly, Whereas the Churches have all of them one common faith, and are all obliged to hold forth and declare it to all men as they have opportunity, 1 Tim. 3.15. to testifie this their mutual communion, their interest in the same faith and hope, for the more open declaration and proposition of the truths of the Gospel which they profess, and for the vindication both of the truth, and themselves, from false charges and imputations, they may, and if God give opportunity, ought to joyn together in declaring and testifying their joynt consent and fellowship in the same doctrine of faith, expressed in a form of sound words.
Quest. 53. What are the ends of all this dispensation and order of things in the Church?
Answ. The glory of God, the honour of Jesus Christ the Mediator, the furtherance of the Gospel, the edification and consolation of Believers here; with their eternal salvation hereafter. Rev. 4.9, 10, 11