N00061:175
Communion of churches: or, The divine management of Gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils,…
Communion of churches: or, The divine management of Gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils, constituted in order according to the Scriptures. : As also, the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular reforming congregational churches: humbly proposed, as a way which hath so much light from the Scriptures of truth, as that it may lawfully be submitted unto by all; and may, by the blessing of the Lord, be a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties, the Presbyterians and the Congregationals. : As also to prepare for the hoped for resurrection of the churches; and to propose a way to bring all Christian nations unto an unity of the faith and order of the Gospel. / Written by John Eliot, teacher of Roxbury in N.E. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts]Communion of churches: or, The divine management of Gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils, constituted in order according to the Scriptures. : As also, the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular reforming congregationall churches: humbly proposed, as a way which hath so much light from the Scriptures of truth, as that it may lawfully be submitted unto by all; and may, by the blessing of the Lord, be a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties, the Presbyterians and the Congregationals. : As also to prepare for the hoped for resurrection of the churches; and to propose a way to bring all Christian nations unto an unity of the faith and order of the Gospel. / Written by John Eliot, teacher of Roxbury in N.E. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The present state of the Church he doth declare, in these five Points, in answering to these five Questions: 1. Whether they walk together in Truth and Love? truthing it in love, Eph. 4.15. 2. Whether Peace ruleth in their hearts, and braves it among them? [Greek or Hebrew], Col. 3.15. 3. Whether they walk in holiness of Life, Evangelically unblameable? Luk. 1.6. 4. Whether the Lambs of the Flock be diligently fed, and trained up for Christ, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? Joh. 21.15. [Greek or Hebrew], My little Lambs. The care of the Lambs, is one third part of the charge over the Flock of God. 5. Whether the Lords-day be reverently, religiously and strictly observed by all? Rev. 1.10. Isai 58.13.
The present state of the Church he doth declare, in these five Points, in answering to these five Questions: 1. Whether they walk together in Truth and Love? truthing it in love, Eph. 4.15. 2. Whether Peace ruleth in their hearts, and braves it among them? 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Col. 3.15. 3. Whether they walk in holiness of Life, Evangelically unblameable? Luk. 1.6. 4. Whether the Lambs of the Flock be diligently fed, and trained up for Christ, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? Joh. 21.15. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, My little Lambs. The care of the Lambs, is one third part of the charge over the Flock of God. 5. Whether the Lords-day be reverently, religiously and strictly observed by all? Rev. 1.10