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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.
CHAP. VI. Of the Ordination of Church Officers.
There are none to be ordained Officers in the Church of God, but those that have a regular call to those Offices; Ordination is the Admission of Persons into their Office, or the consummation of their call, needful to the regular Execution of their Office; it includes in it first, a solemn imploring of the presence of God with them in their Office.
THere are none to be ordained Officers in the Church of God, but those that have a regular call to those Offices; Ordination is the Admission of Persons into their Office, or the consummation of their call, needful to the regular Execution of their Office; it includes in it first, a solemn imploring of the presence of God with them in their Office.
Two things are requisite unto a call; One is, the approbation or invitation of those whom God hath entrusted with that care; the other is, the consent of the Person invited; the former may be a call to the latter, and bind the Person to accept, but there must be ⟨p. 14⟩both, before he is called of God to enter immediately upon the work of the Office; before he be accepted of God as an Officer.