A93085:184
Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve…
Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve our liberty. Together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shepherd, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michel pastor of the said church in New England.Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve our liberty. Together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shephard, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michell pastor of the said church in New England.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1652
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3. 'Tis not any Magisterial power, Diotrephes-like; either to do what they will, Mat. 23.8. and their wills to be their law. No,§3 Matth. 28.20. Teach all that I command you. If they do sin, their persons are under the censure of the Church, in case of manifest offence and scandal by the mouths of two or three witnesses, who being Members of the whole Church, & under it, & being sinful Members; may, if the case need it, be proceeded against by the whole. Neither have they any power to act any public Ordinance wch concerns the whole Church; and where 'tis bound by Christ to judge, without the privity and consent of the Church, as to elect Officers, admit Members, cast out offenders ⟨p. 99⟩in the Vestry without the knowledge of the Church, one of the blains of the reformed Churches, which the Apostles with their extraordinary power never did themselves, much less should these. 1 Cor. 5.
3. 'Tis not any Magisterial power, Diotrephes-like; either to do what they will, Mat. 23.8. and their wills to be their law. No,§3 Matth. 28.20. Teach all that I command you. If they do sin, their persons are under the censure of the Church, in case of manifest offence and scandal by the mouthes of two or three witnesses, who being Members of the whole Church, & under it, & being sinful Members; may, if the case need it, be proceeded against by the whole. Neither have they any power to act any publick Ordinance wch concernes the whole Church; and where 'tis bound by Christ to judge, without the privity and consent of the Church, as to elect Officers, admit Members, cast out offenders ⟨p. 99⟩in the Vestry without the knowledge of the Church, one of the blaines of the reformed Churches, which the Apostles with their extraordinary power never did themselves, much lesse should these.