A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers.
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A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers.
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Owen, John, 1616-1683.
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[London :: s.n.],
1667.
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Worship.
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"A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53671.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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Qu. 7. What are the chief things that we ought to aim at in our observation of the institutions of Christ in the Gospel?
Answ. 1. To sanctifie the name of God. 2. To own and avow our pro∣fessed subjection to the Lord Iesus Christ. 3. To build up our selves in our most holy faith. And 4. To testifie and confirm our mutuall love, as we are Believers.. (1.) Levit. 10.3. Heb. 12.28, 29. (2.) Deut. 26.17. Josh. 24.22. 2 Cor. 8, 5. (3.) Ephes. 4.12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Jude 20. (4.) 1 Cor. 10.16, 17.
Explication.
That we may profitably and comfor∣tably, unto the glory of God, and our own edification, be exercised in the observation of the Institutions and Wor∣ship of God, we are alwayes to con∣sider
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what are the ends for which God hath appointed them, and commanded our attendance unto them, that so our observance of them may be the obedience of faith. For what ends soever God hath appointed them unto, for that end are they usefull and effectuall, and to no other. If we come to them for any other end, if we use them for any other purpose, or with any other design, if we look for any thing in them or by them, but what God hath appointed them to communicate unto us, we dishonour God, and deceive our own souls. This we ought diligently to enquire into, to know not only what God requires of us, but wherefore also he requires it, and what he aims at therein. Some of the principall things whereof are enumerated in this Answer. And it is well known how horribly many of the institutions of the Gospel, have been by some, especi∣ally the Papists, abused, by a neglect of the ends of God in them, and imposing new ends of their own upon them unto Superstition and Idolatry. Grace is as∣cribed unto the outward observance of them, whereas all Grace is of the pro∣mise,
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and the promise in the Covenant is given only to the faith of the right ob∣servers. The elements in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, are turned into a God, first worshipped, and then devoured, with many the like abominations.
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