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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
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IV. In the perfect Pattern (for the Word is a perfect Rule) which the holy Ghost hath left us, Acts 15. as there is a ground work for the least of Councils, in the Two Churches; so of complete Councils, in the Twelve Apostles.
IV. In the perfect Pattern (for the Word is a perfect Rule) which the holy Ghost hath left us, Acts 15. as there is a ground work for the least of Councils, in the Two Churches; so of compleat Councils, in the Twelve Apostles.
For, though Herod had killed James with the sword, Acts 12.2. his Martyrdom did not remove him out of the Foundation, but rather fix him in it: And the Apostles were most of them killed for the Testimony of Jesus before John had his Revelation, and yet we find them all written in the Foundation of the New Jerusalem.
For, though Herod had killed James with the sword, Acts 12.2. his Martyrdome did not remove him out of the Foundation, but rather fix him in it: And the Apostles were most of them killed for the Testimony of Jesus before John had his Revelation, and yet we finde them all written in the Foundation of the New Jerusalem.
And therefore what should hinder, but that in the ordering of Complete Councils, we should lay our foundation in the Number Twelve? and all the Orders of Councils should be raised and compacted by that Number, even from the bottom to the top.