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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 particular instituted Church is the House of God. That particular Church in Ephesus is said to be so. 1 Tim 3.15. A (a)Learned and Eminent Divine has these Expressions. As (saith he) a virtuous Civil man do• not like to have in his House uncivil persons, so the most Holy God will not allow any to be in his Family, that are unholy. As no man can think well to have •wine in his House, or Dogs and Swine to come to board with the rest of the Family, so open Sinners have no allowance from God to be in his Household.
3. A particular instituted Church is the House of God. That particular Church in Ephesus is said to be so. 1 Tim 3.15. A (a)Learned and Eminent Divine has these Expressions. As (saith he) a vertuous Civil man do• not like to have in his House uncivil persons, so the most Holy God will not allow any to be in his Family, that are unholy. As no man can think well to have •wine in his House, or Dogs and Swine to come to board with the rest of the Family, so open Sinners have no allowance from God to be in his Household.
- (a)Mr. Paul Bain on Eph. 1. p. 91.111.
4. None that were legally unclean might enter into the Jewish Temple, 2 Chron. 27.1•. Act. 21.28, 29