A Discourse of ChurchGovernment Author:John Potter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chap. II. Of the Foundation and Government of the Church, ivhilsl Christ lived on Earth. [A v i N G in the laft Chap- Chapter ter confider'd the Natur... more »e H- and chief Characters of the Chriftian Church, as they are defcrih'd in the Holy Scriptures; let us now enquire, what Account the Scriptures have given us of the Foundation and Government of this Church, whilft Christ liv'd on Earth. And here it may be remember'd, that in our prefent Difcourfe, Christ is not confider'd, as the eternal Word, who Was in the beginning with God, and by whom all Thivgs D were Chapter were madea; in which refpeft, he is Lo II. the whole Creation, by a natural, inde ent and unalienable Right: But we fpeak of him as Mediator of the Nerv Cove under which Character he receiy'c Kingdom, that is, his Church, from G which he governs as G o D's Vicegere and muft refign to him, as foon as the d of his Mediation fhall be fully accomplifr Neither fhall we confiderljim, as h ftdedover the Church of God, before o der the Mofaick Oeconomy ; in. which Pe of Time, a the Church was the farr fubftance with the present Chrifli/w Chi tho' differing from it as to its. out ware fity ; fo there is no Doubt, but it was in a peculiar manner govern'd by the S God, the great Angel, both of the Old New Covenant: All that our prefent D leads us to enquire, is, in what mannei last Eftablifhmenc of the Chuch was b and fetded by our Blefled Saviour, whe mas made Fle/h, and lirfd among us. In ti ing on which Subject, two Tunings muJ eonfider'd;; What was, done towards ii pur BlefTed Saviour in his own Verfon. Secondly, W H: A x Wvifters wre ejfnpli under him. . 1,3. " Htli. ii. 7,,. ! i Cut. xv. 18. Chapter I. T o a clear and diftinct understanding of what was done by our Blefled Saviour in his own ...« less