A Vindication of The Essence and Unity of the Church-catholick Visible, and the Priority Thereof in Regard of Particular Churches: In Answer to the Objections Made Against It, by Mr John Ellis Junior, and by that Reverend and Worthy Divine Mr Hooker, in His Survey of Church-discipline. The Second Edition, with an Addition Or Postscript to this Vindication, &c

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J.B., 1658 - Church - 317 pages
 

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Page 265 - For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent.
Page 246 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 265 - God ; and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them : and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good ; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 65 - the stone cut out of the mountain without hands," which " became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Page 264 - Chrift, till we all come in the unity of the " faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of * Eph.
Page 43 - ... long time holden my peace, I have been still, and refrained myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman, I will destroy and devour at once. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs ; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. And I will bring the blind by away that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known ; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake...
Page 89 - ... that any portion of water divided, every "part of it is water, and hath the name and nature of it.
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Page 261 - I forbear to name among the former ; who, though they acknowledge us true Churches , yet deny us to be one Church...
Page 261 - Churches-, but to gather Churches out of our Churches , by gathering our...

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