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Show -\ .) ., ' ' :t·• ) .. \,, rt"!~ \ . \ ' . \~ \:.,\ .. ,_ .· . ., .,f'l) THE Way of the Church~ of Chrill: in :J\( E W:-e :J((j LA :J\(_7), Meafured ~by the Golden Reed of the S A N e T U A R Y • CHAPTER I. The Order of gathering diJPerfed cbrzjli.1ns into a Church. · PRoPosiTION r. SEcTION I. -I~J.'Ha t the Church which Chrift in his_ Gof pell hath infiituted, and to which he hath I committed the keys ofhiskingdom,the power !t of binding and loofing, the tables and feales : of the Covenant, the Ollicers and cenfures of ~:.,;~~~Pi;;j!l his Church, the adminifl:ration of aU his pub~£_' lick Worfhip and Ordinances, is, Ca:tm ftdelium, a Commtmion of Saints, a Combination of faithfull godly men, meeting for that end, by common and joynt con{em, into one. Co~Aregation ; which is commonly called a particzelar vifible Ch,.;th: For the Church to the which Chrifl: committed the power ' of~n4ing and loofing,'was a company of fuch (as \vhereofPctcr wHen~;) Beleevers ptofeffing that £1irh on Chrifl:, whereon (as on a tock) the Church is built, Mdt. I 6. 18, I 9· and fuch as unto whom_Peter, or any brother offtnded,might(indue order) tell the o'lfcncc \YhiCh any brother had given him, & perlitted in, Mat.18. B ~~ |