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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
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2. Pastor and Flock are Relates, and therefore one cannot be without the other. It is contrary to the Rules of Reason (as Logicians know) that the Relate should be without its Correlate. (h)To say that a Wandering Levite who has no Flock is a Pastor, is as good sense as to say, that he that has no Children is a Father, and that the man who has no Wife is a Husband Nor may it be pretended that the Catholic Church is his Flock. For (not to insist on the common Protestant Doctrine that the Catholic Church •s Invisible; as comprehending all true Believers from Abel to the End of the World)
2. Pastor and Flock are Relates, and therefore one cannot be without the other. It is contrary to the Rules of Reason (as Logicians know) that the Relate should be without its Correlate. (h)To say that a Wandring Lesvite who has no Flock is a Pastor, is as good sense as to say, that he that has no Children is a Father, and that the man who has no Wife is a Husband Nor may it be pretended that the Catholick Church is his Flock. For (not to insist on the common Protestant Doctrine that the Catholick Church •s Invisible; as comprehending all true Believers from Abel to the End of the World)
- (h)V•e• de despe•. c•usa p•p• tus. p. 238.
3. A Pastor is under an Obligation to feed every one that is of the Flock which he is a Pastor unto.