A53684:14
A discourse concerning liturgies, and their imposition
London : s.n., 1662
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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.
CHAP. II.
The Disciples of Christ taken into his own disposal. General things to be observed about Gospel Institutions. Their number small. Excess of mens Inventions. Things instituted brought into a Religious Relation by the Authority of Christ. That Authority is none other. Suitableness in the matter of Institutions to be designed to their proper significancy. That discoverable only by infinite Wisdom. Abilities given by Christ for the Administration of all his Institutions. The way whereby it was done, Eph. 9. 7, 8. Several Postulata laid down. The sum of the whole state of our Question in general.
The Disciples of Christ taken into his own disposal. General things to be observed about Gospel Institutions. Their number small. Excess of mens Inventions. Things instituted brought into a Religious Relation by the Authority of Christ. That Authority is none other. Suitableness in the matter of Institutions to be designed to their proper significancy. That discoverable onely by infinite Wisdome. Abilities given by Christ for the Administration of all his Institutions. The way whereby it was done, Eph. 9. 7, 8. Several Postulata laid down. The sum of the whole state of our Question in general.
WE have brought unto, and left the Disciples of Jesus Christ in the hand and sole disposal of him their Lord and Master, as to all things which concern the Worship of God, and how he hath disposed of them we are in the next place to ⟨p. 10⟩