Heresiography, or, A discription of the hereticks and sectaries of these latter times by E. Pagitt.

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Heresiography, or, A discription of the hereticks and sectaries of these latter times by E. Pagitt.
Author
Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.
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London :: Printed by W. Wilson for John Marshall and Robert Trot ...,
1645.
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Heresy.
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"Heresiography, or, A discription of the hereticks and sectaries of these latter times by E. Pagitt." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54528.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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14. Blame the Conversation of our Ministers.

AGaine, although in the Visible Church the evill ever mingled with the good, and sometime the evill have chief Authority in administration of the Word and Sacraments; yet

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forasmuch as they doe not the same in their owne name, but in Christs, and doe administer by his Commission and outhority, we may use their Ministery both in hearing the Word of God▪ and receiving the Sacraments; neither is the effect of Christs Ordinance taken away by their wickednesse, nor the grace of Gods gifts diminished from such as by faith rightly doe receive the Sacraments administred unto them: The Scribes and Pha∣risees (saith our Lord) sit in Moses chaire; all therefore what they bid you observe, doe you, but not after their works, for they say and doe not.

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