The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . d brother of James, to exhort them that are called, and fanftified of God the Fa*tber , that they would carneftly contend to maintain the faith , which was ence de-livered unto the Saints. Which faith bccaufe we
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . d brother of James, to exhort them that are called, and fanftified of God the Fa*tber , that they would carneftly contend to maintain the faith , which was ence de-livered unto the Saints. Which faith bccaufe we cannot maintain, except we knowperfedly, firfl, againft whom, fecondly, in what fort it muft be maintained, there-fore in tlie former three verfes of that parcel of Scripture which I have read , the ene-met of the Crofs of Chriii are plainly defcribcd 5 and in the latter two, they thatJove the Lord Jefus, have a fweet I eflbn given them, how to ftrengthen and ( ablilhthrmfeivcs in the faith. Let us firft thereforeexatniHe thedeftription of thefe repro-bates, concerning faith f and afterwards come to the words of the exhorcaBOn;wherein Chriftiansare taught bow to reft their hearts on Gods eternall andeveriaft-ing Truth. The defcription of thefc godlefs perfonsis two-fold, tentral and /pecat-Tile general doth point tkcm out, and (hew what manner of men tney (hould be. The farti-.
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