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A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their public fast, Novemb.…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb.…
A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their public fast, Novemb. 29. 1643. By William Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word at Yarmouth.A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb. 29. 1643. By VVilliam Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word at Yarmouth.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1643
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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.
But how shall that be? Quest.
Thus. 1. Be sure of this that you take the right line into Answ. your hands. Gods word it is our line, able to reach unto all particular affairs of the Churches.
Thus. 1. Be sure of this that you take the right line into Answ. your hands. Gods word it is our line, able to reach unto all particular affaires of the Churches.
Mistake me not, I pray. A Church is considered two ways; As a meeting of people, men and women; O• as a Church ⟨p. 26⟩meeting, a meeting of Saints, apparent Believers, coe•us sidelium. I do not say that the Word is to be the only line and rule to the Church in the first respect, so reason may be a rule to men as men; but in the second respect it is, the Word is able to reach unto all things belonging unto a Church as a Church. Our Commission is not larger now then the Apostles Commission was, and their Commission ran thus, Go teach and baptize, &c. teaching men to observe what ever I command you, Mat. 28. If not commanded by Christ, then not to be preached by them nor by us. Jesus Christ was and is as fully Christ in his Prophetical as Priestly office, and his Priestly satisfaction reached unto all our sins, though they were never so small, therefore his Prophetical direction reacheth to all our duties,1