The Doctrine of the Church, Title page
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH, To which is committed the Keys of the Kingdome of Heaven.
Wherein is demonſtrated by way of Queſtion and Anſwer, what a viſible Church is, according to the order of the Goſpel: And what Officers, Members, Worſhip, and Government Christ hath ordained in the New Teſtament.
By that Reverend and learned Divine Mr. Jo. Cotton, B.D. and Teacher of the Church at Boſton in New-England.
The Third Edition: More exactly corrected, the Marginall proofes in the former Edition miſplaced, being herein placed more directly; and many other faults both in the Line and Margent, are here Corrected.
Ezek. 43.10, 11.
Thou Sonne of man, ſhew the houſe to the houſe of Iſrael, that they may be aſhamed of their iniquities, and let them meaſure the patterne. And if they hee aſhamed of all that they have done, ſhew them the forme of the houſe, and the faſhion therof, and the goings out thereof, and the commings in thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the lawes thereof: and write it in their ſight, that they may learn the whole forme thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and doe them.
Ier 6.16
Thus ſaith the Lord, Stand ye in the waies and ſee, and aske for the old, paths, &c.
Jer. 50.5.
They ſhall aske the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, ſaying, Come, let us joyne our ſelves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant, that ſhall not be forgotten.
London, Printed for Ben: Allen, and are to be ſold in Popes-head Alley. 1644.