A53689:258
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Zion. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Syon. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, 1648
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. The Union whereunto we are brought in Christ; with the common inheritance promised to us all.
4. The testimony of the Lord Jesus, witnessing what is done in this kind, to be done unto himself, Matth. 25. 35, 36, 37.
5. The promise annexed to it, Eccles. 11. 1. Prov. 19. 17. Deut. 15. 10. Ma. 10 4. 2.
The way whereby it is to be done, is by appointing some, Acts 6. to take what is voluntarily distributed by the brethren, according as God hath blessed them; on the first day of the week, 1 Cor. 16. 1. and to distribute to the necessity of the Saints, according to the advice of the Church.