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The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in…
The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1700
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.
If in Turkey, or America, or else where the Gospel should be received by the Counsel and persuasion of private Persons, they shall not need to send to Europe for Consecrated Ministers, but they have power to Choose their own Ministers from within themselves. Thus Mr. Perkins. To the like purpose does (†)Zanchy speak. And Voetius in his Learned Book concerning the Desperate cause of Papacy, has made it as clear as the Light of the Sun, that not a Personal Succession, but a Succession in respect ⟨p. 96⟩(b)of Doctrine is necessary to make a true Minister of Christ.
If in Turkey, or America, or else where the Gospel should be received by the Counsil and parswasion of private Persons, they shall not need to send to Europe for Consecrated Ministers, but they have power to Chuse their own Ministers from within themselves. Thus Mr. Perkins. To the like purpose does (†)Zanchy speak. And Voetius in his Learned Book concerning the Desperate cause of Papacy, has made it as clear as the Light of the Sun, that not a Personal Succession, but a Succession in respect ⟨p. 96⟩(b)of Doctrine is necessary to make a true Minister of Christ.
- (†)In Eph. •. ubi de Baptismo.
- (b)On Gala. 2 11.