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The doctrine of instituted churches explained and proved from the word of God
The doctrine of instituted churches explained and proved from the word of God by Solomon Stoddard ...
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1700
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.
Obj. 1. We don't find in the New Testament, any National Church among the Gentiles.
Answ. The reason of that is, not that National Churches are not according to the mind of God, in the Days of the New Testament, but because there was no Nation that did receive the Christian faith. Tho there were many Congregations gathered among the Gentiles, yet there were very few of them, comparatively, that did entertain the Gospel; the bulk of all the Gentile Nations, lay in their Heathenism, during all that time that we have the History of in the Scriptures.
Answ. The reason of that is, not that National Churches are not according to the mind of God, in the Days of the New Testament, but because there was no Nation that did receive the Christian faith. Tho there were many Congregations gathered among the Gentiles, yet there were very few of them, comparitively, that did entertain the Gospel; the bulk of all the Gentile Nations, lay in their Heathenism, during all that time that we have the History of in the Scriptures.
Obj. 2. God hath not appointed in the New Testament any National Officers, as the High Priest in Israel, nor any National place of Worship as Jerusalem, therefore there is no National Church.
Obj. 2. God hath not appointed in the New Testament any National Officers, as the High Priest in Israel, nor any National place of VVorship as Jerusalem, therefore there is no National Church.