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Magna Charta ecclesiæ universalis the grand charter issued out and granted by Jesus Christ for the plantation of the Christian faith in all nations ... / by George Lawson ...
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- Magna Charta ecclesiæ universalis the grand charter issued out and granted by Jesus Christ for the plantation of the Christian faith in all nations ... / by George Lawson ...
- Author
- Lawson, George, d. 1678.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by T.M. for Jeremiah Lawson and are to be sold by Tho. Newborough,
- 1686.
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- Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew XXVIII, 18-20 -- Commentaries.
- Christian life.
- Stewardship, Christian.
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"Magna Charta ecclesiæ universalis the grand charter issued out and granted by Jesus Christ for the plantation of the Christian faith in all nations ... / by George Lawson ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49797.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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we may read of Christs suffering, death, and humiliation, whereby he mirited in∣comparable mercies and blessings; so in this we read of his resurrection, and the manner how he will apply and communi∣cate his blessings, and that is by a commis∣sion and power received, and a commis∣sion and power given; for the subject of the words are a two-fold commission.
The first granted by God to Christ, The second by Christ to his Apostles.
These agree in some things, differ in others. 1. They agree as commissions giving great power. 2. As expressing an unspeakable love unto, and a tender care of sinful man. 3▪ As issuing from the su∣pream and universal Lord. 4. As tending to the same end, mans eternal salvation: yet they differ in these things. 1. The former commission is granted by God immediately to Christ; the latter is granted from God by Christ unto the Apostles. 2. The former is the cause of the latter, the latter an effect of the former. 3. By the former Christ receives an universal power in hea∣ven and earth; and by the latter the Apo∣stles receive only a limited power on earth.