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The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by His M… › Section
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[The phrase is such, &c.] The Church in her Prayers useth no more offensive phrase, than St. Paul uses, when he writes to the 1Corinthians, Galatians, and others, calling them in general the Churches of God, Sanctified in Christ Jesus, by vocation Saints, amongst whom notwithstanding there were many, who by their known sins (which the Apostle endeavoured to amend in them) were not properly such, yet he gives the denomination to the whole, from the greater ⟨p. 81⟩part, to whom in charity it was due. And puts the rest in mind what they have by their Baptism undertaken to be, and what they profess themselves to be, and our prayers and the phrase of them, surely supposes no more than that they are Saints by calling, sanctified in Christ Jesus, by their Baptism admitted into Christs Congregation, and so to be reckoned members of that Society, till either they shall separate themselves by wilful Schism, or be separated by legal Excommunication, which they seem earnestly to desire, and so do we.]
[The phrase is such, &c.] The Church in her Prayers useth no more offensive phrase, than St. Paul uses, when he writes to the 1Corinthians, Galathians, and others, calling them in general the Churches of God, Sanctified in Christ Jesus, by vocation Saints, amongst whom notwithstanding there were many, who by their known sins (which the Apostle endeavoured to amend in them) were not properly such, yet he gives the denomination to the whole, from the greater ⟨p. 81⟩part, to whom in charity it was due. And puts the rest in mind what they have by their Baptisme undertaken to be, and what they profess themselves to be, and our prayers and the phrase of them, surely supposes no more than that they are Saints by calling, sanctified in Christ Jesus, by their Baptisme admitted into Christs Congregation, and so to be reckoned members of that Soeiety, till either they shall separate themselves by willful Schisme, or be separated by legal Excommunication, which they seem earnestly to desire, and so do we.]