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An Exposition of the Xxxix Articles of the Church of England
An Exposition of the Xxxix Articles of the Church of England Author:Church of England General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1796 Original Publisher: Printed at the Clarendon Press. Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When yo... more »u buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: By the words kingdom of heaven, generally through the ART. Swhole Gofpel, the difpenfation of the Meffias is underftood. X1X This appears evidently from the words with which both St. "Y John Baptift and our Saviour begun their preaching, Repent, , ;.' i7 for the kingdom of heaven is fit hand: and the many parables and comparifons that Chrift gave of the kingdom of heaven, can only be underftood of the preaching cf thi Gofpel. This being then agreed to, the It oft natural and the Icaft forced expolition of thofe words muft be, that St. Peter was to open the difpenfation cf the Gofpel. The proper ufe of a key is to open a door : and as this agrees with thefe words, ke that hath the key of the houfe of David, that openeth and%. cv. iii. 7. no man Jhutteth, and Jhutteth and no man openetb; and with Lukclli-5 the phrafe of the key of knowledge, by which the lawyers are defcribed; for they had a key with writing-tables given them, as the badges of their profeflion : fo it agrees with the accomplifhment of this promifc in St. Peter, who firft opened the Gofpel to the Jews, after the wonderful effufion of the Holy Ghoft : and more eminently when he firft opened the door to the Gentiles, preaching to Cornelius, and baptizing him, and his houftiold, to which the phrafe of the kingdom of heaven feems to have a more particular relation. This difpenfation was committed to St. Peter, and feems to be claimed by him as his peculiar privilege in the council at Jerufalem. This is a cl...« less