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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.
3. A Pastor is under an Obligation to feed every one that is of the Flock which he is a Pastor unto. Act. 20 28. Take heed therefore to your selves, and to all the F•ck over which the Holy Ghost has made you Overseers is any mere man able to feed all that Fl•ck of the Church Catholic Visible? A Minister must give an account concerning every Soul in that Flock which he is the Pastor of▪ Heb. 13 17 They that say they are Pastors of the Catholic Church, may do well to think what account they can give of the ten thousands of Souls belonging to ⟨p. 103⟩their Flock that were never instructed nor fed by them.
3. A Pastor is under an Obligation to feed every one that is of the Flock which he is a Pastor unto. Act. 20 28. Take heed therefore to your selves, and to all the F•ck over which the Holy Ghost has made you Overseers is any meer man able to feed all that Fl•ck of the Church Catholick Visible? A Minister must give an account concerning every Soul in that Flock which he is the Pastor of▪ Heb. 13 17 They that say they are Pastors of the Catholick Church, may do well to think what account they can give of the ten thousands of Souls belonging to ⟨p. 103⟩their Flock that were never instructed nor fed by them.