Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
The text includes a large number of marginal notes that are printed in small font and are sometimes unclear. They have been converted into footnotes or (if they comprise general descriptions of a passage) into sidenotes. A footnote may refer to the following, rather than prece...
But the _examination_ that we are now treating of, belongs to _Discipline and Government_; for it is not only a naked examination, but an _authoritative determining whether the...
10. Part 10But now, because he that would keep himself from the Errour of the times, must also keep himself from the sins of the times: (For it is sin that makes God give us up to errour,...
8. Part 83. The reward you shall have for the faithfull continuance in your office, [109]is not from men, (though you deserve, and ought to have even from men double honour, and are to b...
5. Part 5The second grand Objection against the _Presbyteriall-Government_, is, that it requires all, of all sorts, to come to the _Minister_ and _Elders_ to be examined, before they can...
9. Part 96. To endeavour, that your [131]_eyes may affect your hearts_, when you are at the Sacrament. For as Christ in the Ministery of his Word, preacheth to the ear; and by the ear co...
11. Part 111. To beseech you to consider, whether you did not receive the _work of Conversion from sin unto God, which ye presume to be wrought in you first of all, in these publique assem...
7. Part 7[52] _Gerhardus de Ministerio Ecclesiastico_, Calvin. _in locum_, P. Martyr, _in locum_. Beza _in locum_. Piscator _in locum_. Ambros. _in locum_. Chrys. _in locum_. Salmer. _in...
12. Part 123. That ignorance, though it be not the greatest, yet it is a most dangerous sin: All sin is wrapt up in ignorance, as a child in swadling clouts. The Scripture saith, [194]_Tha...
4. Part 43. That this _Church-Governour_ is seated by God in his Church; It is a _plant of Gods own planting_, and therefore shall stand firme, maugre all opposition. For it is expresly...
2. Part 22. Because the _Church of Christ had a Government within it self for 300 years before it had a Christian Magistrate_. The Scripture tells us, that the Church, in the Apostles da...
3. Part 3Now that this _Subordination_, together with _appeals_, did not belong to the _Jewish Church_, as _Jewish_ only, but as it was an _Ecclesiastical Republique_, is evident. For th...
1. Part 1The text includes a large number of marginal notes that are printed in small font and are sometimes unclear. They have been converted into footnotes or (if they comprise general...
13. Part 132. The Apostles words are not to be understood _restrictively and exclusively_. For he doth not say, Let a man examine himself _only_, But let a man _Examine himself_, that is,...