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| Chapter I.-That the Ministery
is a perpetuall Ordinance in the Church, and that Ministers are to be received
as the Ambassadours of Christ, now as well as in the Primitive times. |
Chapter XII.-Whether
a sound heart and an unsound head can consist together, & vice versa?
or whether Truth and Holines be not inseparable Companions. |
| Chapter II.-Of the Election
of Pastors with the Congregations consent. |
Chapter XIII.-Whether
Conscionable Christians and such as love the power and practice of piety,
can without defileing their own conscience, or without a destructive wounding
of the power of godlinesse, imbrace and hold the principles of these who
call themselves the godly partie? Or whether they ought not rather to avoid
these who do now Pharisaically and Donatistically appropriat to themselves
the name of the Godly partie, as being indeed such, who under the pretence
of zeall for the power of godlines, hold diverse ungodly principles. |
| Chapter III.-Whether Ordination bee Essentiall
to the Calling of a Minister. |
Chapter XIV.-Another
most usefull Case of Conscience discussed and resolved, concerning associations
and confederacies with Idolaters, Infidels, Hereticks, or any other known
enemies of truth and godlinesse. |
| Chapter IV.-Objections against the necessity of
Ordination answered. |
Chapter XV.-Of Uniformity
in Religion, Worship of God, and Church Government. |
| Chapter V.-Whether these Prophets and prophesyings
in the Primitive Church I Cor. 14. and I Cor. 12.18. Eph. 4.11.
were extraordinary, and so not to continue: Or whether they are Presidents
for the preaching and prophesying of such as are neither ordained Ministers,
nor Probationers for the Ministry. |
Chapter XVI.-Whether
it be lawfull, just and expedient that the taking of the Solemne League
and Covenant be injoyned by the Parliament upon all Persons in the Kingdome
under a considerable penalty. |
| Chapter VI.-Whether any but a Ministers, lawfully
called and ordained, may adminster the Sacraments, Baptisme, and the Lords
Supper. |
Chapter XVII.-Of Infant-baptisme. |
| Chapter VII.-Of Prophets and Evangelists in what
sense their work and vocation might be called extraordinary, and in what
sense ordinary. |
Chapter XVIII.-Of the use of a Table in the Lords
supper, and of the communicants there coming to, and receiving at the Table. |
| Chapter IX.-What is meant
in Scripture by the word Heresies, and how we are to understand, that there
must be Heresies for making manifest the Godly partie, or those that are
approved, I Cor. 11.19. |
Chapter XIX.-That there was among the Jews a jurisdiction
and government Ecclesiasticall distinct from the civill. |
| Chapter X.-Of New Lights,
and how to keep off from splitting either upon the Charybdis of pertinacy
and tenaciousnesse, or upon the Scylla of Levity, Wavering, and Scepticisme. |
Chapter XX.-That necessary consequences from the
written word of God do sufficiently and strongly prove the consequent or
conclusion, if Hereticall, to be a certain divine Truth which ought to
be believed; and if practicall, to be a necessary dutie which we are obliged
unto jure divino. |
| Chapter XI.-Of Stability
and firmnesse in the Truth. |
Chapter XXI.-Of an assurance of an interest in
Christ by the marks or fruits of sanctification, and namely by love to
the Brethren. Also how this agreeth with, or differeth from assurance
by the Testimony of the spirit? and whether there can be any wel grounded
assurance without marks of grace. |
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Chapter XXII.-Of the
true real and safe grounds of incouragement to believe in Jesus Christ.
Or, Upon what warrands a sinner may adventure to rest, and rely upon Christ
for Salvation. |
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