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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.
Rules of walking in fellowship, with reference to Pastor. › Rule 2 › Explication 2: EXPLICAT. II.
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.
EXPLICAT. II.
That an exemplar conversation was ever required in the dispensers of holy things, ⟨p. 8⟩both in the Old Testament and New, is apparent: the glorious vestment of the old ministering Priests, Urim and Thummim, with many other ornaments, though primitively typical of Jesus Christ, yet did not obscurely set out the purity and holiness required in the administrators themselves, Zech. 3. 4. in the new, The shining of their lights in all good works, Matth. 5. 16. is eminently exacted: and this not only, that no offence be taken at the ways of God, and his worship by them administered, as hath fallen out in the Old Testament, Jam. 2. 17. and in the New, Phil. 3. 18, 19. but also those who are without may be convinced. 1 Tim. 3. 7: and the Churches directed in the practise of all the will and ⟨p. 9⟩mind of God by them revealed; as in the places cited, a Pastor should be vocal, Sermons must be practised as well as preached; Though Noah's Work-men built the Ark, yet themselves were drowned; God will not accept of the tongue where the Devil hath the soul. Jesus did do and teach,