A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.

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A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.
Author
Congregational Churches in England.
Publication
London :: printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry,
1688.
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Subject terms
Congregational churches -- Catechisms -- Early works to 1800.
Congregational churches -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Congregational churches -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52593.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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IV.

The Almighty Power, unsearchable Wisdom, and infinite Goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in his Provi∣dence, in that his determinate Counsel extendeth it self even to the first Fall, and all other sins of Angels and Men, (and that not by a bare Permission) which also he most wisely and power∣fully boundeth, and otherwise ordereth and governeth in a manifold Dispensa∣tion to his own most holy ends; yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth on∣ly from the Creature, and not from God, who being most holy and righteous,

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neither is, nor can be the author or ap∣prover of Sin.

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