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What doth God require of us in our dependence on him, that he may be
glorified by us, and we accepted with him?
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By what means do we come to know that God will thus be worshipped?
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How, then, are these ways and means of the worship of God made known
unto us?
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Have these ways and means been always the same from the beginning?
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Is there any farther alteration to be expected in or of those
institutions and ordinances of worship which are revealed and appointed
in the gospel?
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May not such an estate of faith and perfection in obedience be attained
in this life, as wherein believers may be freed from all obligation
unto the observation of gospel institutions?
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What are the chief things that we ought to aim at in our observation of
the institutions of Christ in the gospel?
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How may we sanctify the name of God in the use of gospel institutions?
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How do we in our observation profess our subjection unto the Lord Jesus
Christ and his gospel??
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How do we in and by them build up ourselves in our most holy faith??
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How are mutual love and communion among believers testified and
confirmed in their observation??
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What is principally to be attended unto by us in the manner of the
celebration of the worship of God, and observation of the institutions
and ordinances of the gospel??
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Are not some institutions of the New Testament ceased as to any
obligation unto their observation, and therefore now rightly disused??
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May not the church find out, and appoint to be observed, such
religious rites as, being adjoined unto the celebration of God's
instituted worship, may further the devotion of the worshippers, and
render the worship itself in its performance more decent, beautiful,
and orderly, as the appointing of images, and the like??
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Whence may it appear that the right and due observation of instituted
worship is of great importance unto the glory of God, and of high
concernment unto the souls of men??
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Is there yet any consideration that may stir up believers to a holy and
religious care about the due observation of the institutions of the
gospel??
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Which are the principal institutions of the gospel to be observed in
the worship of God??
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Whereas sundry of these things are founded in the light and law of
nature, as requisite unto all solemn worship, and are, moreover,
commanded in the moral law, and explications of it in the Old Testamen,
how do you look upon them as evangelical institutions, to be observed
principally on the authority of Jesus Christ??
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What is an instituted church of the gospel??
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By what means do persons so called become a church of Christ??
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Seeing the church is a society or spiritual incorporation of persons
under rule, government, or discipline, declare who or what are the
rulers, governors, or officers therein under Jesus Christ??
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Who are the extraordinary officers, or rulers, or ministers of the
church, appointed to serve the Lord Jesus Christ therein for a season
only??
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Who are the ordinary officers or ministers of Christ in the church, to
be always continued therein??
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What are the principal differences between these two sorts of officers
or rulers in the church, extraordinary and ordinary??
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What is required unto the due constitution of an elder, pastor, or
teacher of the church??
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May a person be called to, or be employed in, a part only of the office
or work of the ministry; or may he hold the relation and exercise the
duty of an elder or minister unto more churches than one at the same
time??
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What are the principal duties of the pastors or teachers of the church??
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Wherein principally doth the authority of the elders of the church
consist??
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What is the duty of the church towards their elders, pastors, or
teachers??
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Are there any differences in the office or offices of the guides,
rulers, elders, or ministers of the church??
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Are there appointed any elders in the church whose office and duty
consist in rule and government only??
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Is there no other ordinary office in the church but only that of
elders??
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What are the deacons of the church??
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Wherein consists the general duty of the whole church, and every member
thereof, in their proper station and condition??
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Whence do you reckon prayer, which is a part of moral and natural
worship, among the institutions of Christ in his church??
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May not the church, in the solemn worship of God, and celebration of
the ordinances of the gospel, make use of and content itself in the use
of forms of prayer in an unknown tongue composed by others, and
prescribed unto them??
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Is the constant work of preaching the gospel by the elders of the
church necessary??
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Who are the principal subjects of baptism??
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Where and to whom is the ordinance of the Lord's supper to be
administered??
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How often is that ordinance to be administered??
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What is the discipline of the church??
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Unto whom is the power and administration of this discipline committed
by Jesus Christ??
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Wherein doth the execise of the authority for discipline committed unto
the elders of the church consist??
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May the church cast any person out of its communion without previous
admonition??
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Wherein doth the liberty and duty of the whole brotherhood in the
exercise of disciplin in the church in particular consist??
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What is the duty of private members in reference unto the discipline
appointed by Christ in his church??
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The preservation of the church in purity, order, and holiness, being
provided for, by what way is it to be continued and increased??
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What is required of them who desire to join themselves unto the church??
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What is the duty of the elders of the church towards persons desiring
to be admitted unto the fellowship of the church??
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What is the duty of the whole church in reference unto such persons??
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Wherein doth the especial form of a particular church, whereby it
becomes such, and is distinguished as such from all others, consist??
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Wherein consists the duty of any church of Christ towards other
churches??
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What are the ends of all this dispensation and order of things in the
church?
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