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The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three…The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three…
The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed for Luke Fawne, 1643
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Answ. Now we shall quickly close this business. For
Answ. Now we shall quickly close this businesse. For
1. It is this Prelacy, thus clothed, thus circumstanced, which we swear to extirpate; Read else the clause again, Prelacy, that is, Church-Government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors, &c. Not every, or all kinds of Prelacy; not Prelacy in the latitude of the notion thereof.
1. It is this Prelacy, thus cloathed, thus circumstanc't, which we swear to extirpate; Read else the clause again, Prelacy, that is, Church-Government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors, &c. Not every, or all kindes of Prelacy; not Prelacy in the latitude of the notion thereof.
2. And secondly, let us join issue upon this point, and make no more words of it; If there be an Episcopacy or Prelacy found in the word, as the way of Gospel government which Christ hath bequeathed the Churches, and this be made appear, we are so far from swearing to extirpate such a Prelacy, as that rather we are bound by virtue to this Oath to entertain it, as the mind and will of Jesus Christ.
2. And secondly, let us joyn issue upon this point, and make no more words of it; If there be an Episcopacy or Prelacy found in the word, as the way of Gospel government which Christ hath bequeathed the Churches, and this be made appear, we are so far from swearing to extirpate such a Prelacy, as that rather we are bound by vertue to this Oath to entertain it, as the minde and will of Jesus Christ.