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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XXIII.

Although the Church is a Society of Men, assembling for the celebration of the Ordinances according to the ap∣pointment of Christ, yet every Society assembling for that end or purpose, upon the account of Cohabitation within any Civil Precincts and Bounds, is not thereby constituted a Church, seeing there may be wanting among them, what is essentially required there∣unto; and therefore a Believer living with others in such a Precinct, may joyn himself with any Church for his Edification.

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