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A trial of the new-church way in New-England and in old ... by that…A tryall of the nevv-church vvay in New-England and in old ... by that…
A trial of the new-church way in New-England and in old ... by that learned and godly minister of Christ, John Ball of Whitmore ; penned a little before his death and sent over to the New England ministers, anno 1637, as a reply to an answer of theirs in justification of the said positions ... ; now published ... by William Rathband and Simeon Ash.A tryall of the nevv-church vvay in New-England and in old ... by that learned and godly minister of Christ, John Ball of Whitmore ; penned a little before his death and sent over to the New England ministers, anno 1637, as a reply to an answer of theirs in justification of the said positions ... ; now published ... by William Rathband and Simeon Ash.
London: printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons for Thomas Underhill, 1644
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.
IF by the Church be understood the Society of men, professing the entire faith of Christ, the seals are given unto it as a peculiar privilege; but if by the Church you understand only a congregational assembly in Church order, the seals were never appropriated to it. But to examine every thing in order as it is propounded.
IF by the Church be understood the Society of men, professing the entire faith of Christ, the seales are given unto it as a peculiar priviledge; but if by the Church you understand onely a congregationall assembly in Church order, the seales were never appropriated to it. But to examine every thing in order as it is propounded.
1 The Seals, Baptism, and the Lords Supper, are given to the Church as privileges peculiar thereunto, not only in ordinary (as you say) but also in extraordinary dispensation.1 True baptism is not without the Church, but within it; an ordinance given to it, and they that are baptised, must needs be of a Church. The Sacraments are the seals of the Covenant to the faithful, which is the form of the Church, and when for substance rightly used, tokens and pledges of our spiritual admittance and entertainment into the Lords family,2 and Symbols or testimonies whereby the people of God are distinguished from all other Nations.3 This is most certain,4 as in the ordinary; so in the extraordinary dispensation of the Seals, as is confirmed by the Texts of Scripture alleged in the Margin. For the Apostles (as you say) dispensed the seals in an extraordinary way, but the seals dispensed by the Apostles were Seals of the covenant, privileges peculiar to the Church, privileges of spiritual admittance and entertainment into the Lords family.