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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.
4. None that were legally unclean might enter into the Jewish Temple, 2 Chron. 27.1•. Act. 21.28, 29. Nor Eat of the Passover and other Holy things. Numb. 9 6, 10, 11. Now Evangelical Churches are the Lords Temple. 1 Cor 3.16, 17. And 2 Cor. 6.16. And they have in them Sacred things, yea the Body and Blood of Christ; and therefore •hey who are Morally Unclean may not be admitted into them. The Ceremonial Holiness of the Jewish Church was Typical of that real Holiness which ought to be in Gospel Churches.
4. None that were legally unclean might enter into the Jewish Temple, 2 Chron. 27.1•. Act. 21.28, 29. Nor Eat of the Pasover and other Holy things. Numb. 9 6, 10, 11. Now Evangelical Churches are the Lords Temple. 1 Cor 3.16, 17. And 2 Cor. 6.16. And they have in them Sacred things, yea the Body and Blood of Christ; and therefore •hey who are Morally Unclean may not be admitted into them. The Ceremonial Holiness of the Jewish Church was Typical of that real Holiness which ought to be in Gospel Churches.
5. When it has been otherwise, the Lord has reproved them that have caused or permitted such abuses; as in the Church at Corinth, Pergamus, Thyatira, which are blamed for their suffering Ungodly persons to be in their Communion.