Monday, July 31, 2006

Monday Puritan

"Pastors and ministers of the Church ought to use their Ministerial power and authority in purging and reforming the Church; viz. by taxing and reproving abuses in their publick Ministry: as also by teaching and directing the Civil Magistrate in the true and right way of reforming abuses; and exhorting him thereunto. The Ministers of the Word ought to be assistants to the Magistrate in reforming abuses in the Church: as Azariah was to Asa, 2 Chron. 15. Esay to Hezekiah, Hilkiah the priest unto Josiah."

-- George Petter (re: Mark 11:15-16).

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