A86000:43
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded…
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late General Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianism, independency, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1647
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The Saxon Confession. Art. 15. of the Lords Supper. The Lord willeth that every receiver be particularly confirmed by this testimony, so that he may be certified that the benefits of the Gospel do appertain to himself, seeing the Preaching is common, and by this testimony, by this receiving, he showeth that thou art one of his members, and washed with his blood. And by and by. Thus therefore we instruct the Church, that it behooveth them that come to the supper, to bring with them repentance or conversion, and (faith being now kindled in the meditation of the death and resurrection, and the benefits of the ⟨p. 8⟩Son of God) to seek here the confirmation of this faith. The very same things are set down, and that in the very same words in the consent of the Churches of Pole-land in the Sendominian Synod, Anno 1570. Art. of the Lords Supper,
The Saxon Confession. Art. 15. of the Lords Supper. The Lord willeth that every receiver be particularly confirmed by this testimony, so that he may be certified that the benefits of the Gospel doe appertaine to himself, seeing the Preaching is common, and by this testimony, by this receiving, he sheweth that thou art one of his members, and washed with his blood. And by and by. Thus therefore we instruct the Church, that it behooveth them that come to the supper, to bring with them repentance or conversion, and (faith being now kindled in the meditation of the death and resurrection, and the benefits of the ⟨p. 8⟩Son of God) to seek here the confirmation of this faith. The very same things are set downe, and that in the very same words in the consent of the Churches of Pole-land in the Sendominian Synode, Anno 1570. Art. of the Lords Supper,