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A70099	Fenwick, William, 1616 or 17-ca. 1682.	An exact enqviry after ancient truths, both in scripture and fathers touching the subsistence of the Church of God, digested into three parts : viz. I. True worship. II. Dominion, or divine jurisdiction. III. Discipline, reduced from our father Adams time, through all ages, to these present times ... / by W. Fenwick ...	1643.0		.xml	application/xml	26025	756	59	For if he had lost his naturall faculties , hee had lost the forme of his being , and if his birth-right and dignity of dominion had beene abolished before it had beene conferred upon another , then should nature have been deprived of the ministration of judgement , Justice , and equity , which would have brought forth an utter dissolution of the whole generation of man ; But after the sonnes of Adam , as it were forfeited their dignity and birth-right of dominion by multiplying transgression , then God the Father conferred the preheminence thereof upon the Sonne of Man ( even Christ ) that he might consecrate and appoint , whom it seemed good unto him to sit upon his temporall Throne , so that birth-right and preheminence might be his in whom all fulnesse dwelt . As the proceeding Word hath proceeded by inspiration to dwell in man , which is his internall ministration : so he proceedeth by externall ministration to divulge and write the same proceeding Word by the instrumentall pen and voyce of man for mans instruction , at first written by his Prophet Moyses , and after by the rest of Prophets and Apostles , and Evangelists to feed and preserve their holy faith & worship of God among the faithfull ; As Paul witnesseth , 2 Tim. 3. 15. 16.	cache/A70099.xml	txt/A70099.txt
