• A I Chrillian DirecStory • • The .T'hird Part. Chrifl:ian Ecclefiafl:icks • • OR, D I R E c T I 0 N s To PASTORS & PEOPLE, About Sacred Doctrine, W orfhip and Difcipline , and their ' mutual Duties. With the Solution of a multitude of Church-Controverfies and Cafes of Confcience. By r.E{ICHA'RV 'BAXTE~ r Cor. I 2· 2 5, =7, 28. 1h.Jt there jhould be 1!3 Scbi(m in the body; hHt the Member/ jhould have the fame care oncfr,r another---Now ye are tbe Body of Chrift, and Members in particular: And God bath frt fome in the Church, firft Apnj!ltJ, &c. Eph. 4· 3, 4, 12, &c. EndcavourinJ: to i;eep the Vnity oftbe SPIRIT in the bond of Peace. There i1 one Body, one Spirit,----one Hope---.. Olft Lord, one Faith, mu Rapt if m, 0 . . . 011e God--. _':f. And he gave fome Apujtlu, and fame Propbet.r_, and fomc Evange· ~~~d. ne Mwdlcm.l lijls, and fome Pttftors and TeacbcrJ, far the perfdlmg of the SamtJ, fur the wor~ of thcMinHhy,fiJrtheedifying ofthebodycf Chrijt: TiU rre aU come imo tbe unity oftbe,ait!J, and the lz.nowledgcof the Son of God toa perfdl m.m, unto the meafore of tbe ftature of tbc fulm i of Cbrift : 7'bat we henuforth be no more Cbilrlrcn, toffid to and fro, aJtd carryed about witiJ every wind vf d.Jliriue, by the cogging (orJlright) ofmw, andmmting craftincfi, whereby they lye in wait todiceive. B111 ~cepin~ tbe "truth in Love, may grow up imohim in all things which is the head, even Chrift : From JPhom the n·hole bo· dy, compal1ed and ctmenwl togetlur by every joynt of fopply, according toitspo1rtr in ptoptmion of each part, work..ctb increafe of the bo~IJ, to the edifJ•ing of it {t/fin Love. I T irn. 3· IS· 'lbat thoumaifllQtow bow thou oughtrft to behave tl.y {tlf in the HDtt[c of God, which is tbe Church of the living God, ( ar ) A piUar and bafiJ of the tmtb. 1 Thcff.5.t2, 1 3• 1Ye befuch yott brethren to 4now them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonijh you,and to ejlccm them very highly in luve for theirwork],zk_e; and be at peace amongyour felve 1 • Lo ~vo J\(, Printed, by (j{_gbert White, for NelJill Simmo11r, at the Sign of the Pri11cer< Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1 67 3·
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