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The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applied in…The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applyed in…
The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applied in a sermon preached at Swampfield, January 1st. 1717[/]18. Being the day of the gathering of the church, and the ordination of the Reverend Joseph Willard their pastor. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. & Pastor of Northampton.The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applyed in a sermon preached at Swampfield, January 1st. 1717[/]18. Being the day of the gathering of the church, and the ordination of the Reverend Joseph Willard their pastor. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. & Pastor of Northampton.
printed by B. Green, 1718
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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.
2. That Commands are set down generally, when the Rulers are particularly intended. Isai. 1 17 Relieve the Oppressed, judge the Fatherless, plead for the Widow. Am 4.15. Establish judgment in the gate. Zech. 8.16. Execute the judgment of peace and truth in your gates. It would be strange arguing that because Prophets spake these things to Israel, that the common People must have an hand in judging. And that acts of Justice were to be done by the Suffrage of the Multitude.
4 Obj. The taking away of the power of Brethren is the way to let Corruption into the Church.
A. 1. There never was any way of government, propounded by God and invented by Man, that hath prevailed to keep Corruption out of the Church. In a little while most Churches have sensibly declined. The Church of Israel, notwithstanding the order which they were put into by God himself, grew corrupt in a little time.
A. 1. There never was any way of government, propounded by God and invented by Man, that hath provailed to keep Corruption out of the Church. In a little while most Churches have sensibly declined. The Church of Israel, notwithstanding the order which they were put into by God himself, grew corrupt in a little time.