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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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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XXII.

The Power of Censures being seated by Christ in a particular Church, is to be exercised only towards particular Members of each Church respectively as such; and there is no Power given by him unto any Synods or Ecclesiasti∣cal Assemblies to Excommunicate, or

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by their publick Edicts to threaten Excommunication, or other Church-censures against Churches, Magistrates, or their People upon any account, no Man being obnoxious to that Censure, but upon his personal Miscarriage, as a Member of a particular Church.

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