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Chap. XXVI. — Of Particular Churches.
Q. 1. What are particular churches?
A. Peculiar aassemblies103103 Every corruption doth not
presently unchurch a people. 104104 Unholiness of fellow-worshippers
defileth not God’s ordinances. of professors in one place,
bunder officers of Christ’s institution, cenjoying
the ordinances of God, dand leading lives beseeming their holy
calling.
aActs xi. 26;
1 Cor. iv. 17,
xi. 22; 2 Cor. i. 1. bActs xx. 17, 28,
xiv. 23; 2 Cor. viii.
23; Heb. xiii. 17. c1
Cor. iii. 5; Rev. ii.
1–3. d2 Thess. iii. 5, 6,
11; Gal. vi. 16; Phil. iii.
17; 1 Thess. ii.
12.
Q. 2. What are the ordinary officers of such churches?
A. First, apastors or doctors,105105 Ministers are the bishops of
the Lord; lord-bishops came from Rome. to teach and exhort;
secondly, belders, to assist in rule and government; thirdly,
cdeacons, to provide for the poor.
aRom. xii. 7, 8; Eph. iv.
11; 1 Cor. xii.
28. bRom. xii. 8;
1 Tim. v. 17. cActs vi. 2, 3.
Q. 3. What is required of these officers, especially the chiefest, or ministers?
A. aThat they be faithful in the ministry committed
unto them; bsedulous in dispensing the Word;
cwatching for the good of the souls committed to them;
dgoing before them in an example of all godliness and holiness
of life.
a1 Cor. iv. 2;
Acts xx. 18–20.
b2 Tim. ii. 15, iv. 1–5.
cTit. i. 13; 1
Tim. iv. 15, 16. dTit. ii. 7;
1 Tim. iv. 12; Matt. v.
16; Acts xxiv. 16.
Q. 4. What is required in the people unto them?
A. Obedience ato their message and ministry;
bhonour and love to their persons; cmaintenance to
them and their families.
a2 Cor. v. 20;
Rom. vi. 17; Heb. xiii.
17; 2 Thess. iii.
14; Rom. xvi. 19; 2 Cor.
x. 4–6. b1 Cor. iv. 1;
Gal. iv. 14; 1 Tim.
v. 17, 18. cLuke x. 7;
James v. 4; 1 Tim.
v. 17, 18; 1 Cor. ix.
9–13.
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