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Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the sovereign powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and welfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 1658
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9. By this means also, the Ordinances will be more purely administered, agreeably to their Nature, and the Institution: And so God will bless them more to his Church, and own his people, with the fuller discoveries of his presence, and take pleasure in the Assemblies and services of his Saints.
9. By this means also, the Ordinances will be more purely administred, agreeably to their Nature, and the Institution: And so God will bless them more to his Church, and own his people, with the fuller discoveries of his presence, and take pleasure in the Assemblies and services of his Saints.
10. By this means also, the Communion of the Saints, (and the holy Ordinances of God) will be abundantly more sweet to his Servants, when we have it in the appointed way, and it is not embittered to us, by the pollutions of Infidels, and notorious ungodly men. Though yet I know, that in a negligent polluted Church, Gods Servants may have their share of comfort, in his Ordinances, when they have done their own duty for Reformation, without success.
10. By this means also, the Communion of the Saints, (and the holy Ordinances of God) will be abundantly more sweet to his Servants, when we have it in the appointed way, and it is not imbittered to us, by the pollutions of Infidels, and notorious ungodly men. Though yet I know, that in a negligent polluted Church, Gods Servants may have their share of comfort, in his Ordinances, when they have done their own duty for Reformation, without success.
11. By this means the Church, and the Christian Religion will be more honourable in the eyes of the world, who judge by the members and professors lives, before they can judge of the thing as in it self: And as