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Author: Dury, John, 1596-1680.
Title: An earnest plea for a Gospel-communion in the way of godliness, which is sued for by the Protestant churches of Germanie, unto the churches of Great Brittaine and Ireland: in a letter written by them to these, which was sent hither to that effect, by the hand of John Dury, minister of the Gospell.
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Print source: An earnest plea for a Gospel-communion in the way of godliness, which is sued for by the Protestant churches of Germanie, unto the churches of Great Brittaine and Ireland: in a letter written by them to these, which was sent hither to that effect, by the hand of John Dury, minister of the Gospell.
Dury, John, 1596-1680.
London,: Printed for Richard Wodnothe in Leaden-hall-Market, next door to the Golden Hart, 1654.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A81915.0001.001
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To the Godly and Learned Professors and Heads of Colledges in the Two famous Univer∣sities of the Common-Wealth of ENGLAND.
The PREFACE. To all that wish well to the progress of our own Reformation at home, and to the good of the Protestant Cause, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ abroad.
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This Letter in English speaks thus.
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Of the First. What is meant by a Bodie of Practi∣call Divinity.
Concerning the Precognitions.
Of the First, That there is a God.
Of the Second.
Of the Third.
OF the Fourth.
Concerning the Principles.
Of the things belonging to the Tenor of the Covenant.
Of the Parties.
Of God.
Of Man.
Of the Mediator Jesus Christ.
Of the Form of the Contract.
Of the establishment of the Contract with Men for Christs sake.
Of the generall offer of Grace.
How the particular Termes of the Covenant are made good to beleevers.
How the Particular Terms of the Covenant are made good to Professors.
Of the Third. Wherefore all men are bound to entertain the Offer and keep the Tenor of the Covenant.
Matters of Truth to be known to confirm us in the Covenant.
Concerning the Substantials of the Life of Godliness.
Of the Ordering our way toward our selves by Sobriety.
Of the Ordering of our way towards our Neighbours by Justice.
Of the Ordering of our way towards God by Religiousness.
Of the Circumstantials of the Life of Godlinesse.
Concerning Magistrates,
Concerning Subjects we must know
Concerning the Members of the Church we must know
Concerning those that bear Office in the Church of God, We must know
Of the Second. What the Reasons and Motives are, which should induce us to make up this Body of Divinity, and Com∣municate it to Forraine Protestant Churches.
Of the Third. How the Worke may be effected and imparted unto those that have sued for it.
The Copy of a Letter which was written by severall Godly Ministers, Undertakers in this Work of compiling a Body of Practical Divinity, to Doctor Usher the Pri∣mat of Armach. in Ireland.
For his loving Friend M. John Dury, These.
A Letter written divers years agoe by the Au∣thor of the foregoing Treatise to M. Samuel Hartlib concerning the difference of Practi∣cal and Case Divinity.