Independency Not Gods Ordinance, Frontispiece – Title page
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Man's dayes are vaine, and as a flower they fade,
Heere's one proclames, whereon man's life is stay'd;
His ſufferings, Changes, Comforts, in strict thrall,
Shen's GOD alone, preſerves, and Gouernes all.
INDEPENDENCY NOT GODS ORDINANCE: OR A Treatiſe concerning Church-Government, occaſioned by the Diſtractions of theſe times. Wherein is evidently proved, that the Presbyterian Government DEPENDENT is Gods Ordinance, and not the Presbyterian Government INDEPENDENT. To vvhichwhich is annexed a Poſtſcript, diſcovering the uncharitable dealing of the Independents towards their Chriſtian brethren, and the fraud and jugglings of many of their Paſtors and Miniſters, to the miſleading of the poor people, not only to their own detriment, but the hurt of Church and State; with the danger of all Novelties in Religion. BY JOHN BASTVVICK, Dr in Phyſick.
2 CORIN. 13.8.
For we can do nothing against the Truth, but for the Truth.
1 THESS. 5.21.
Prove all things, and hold fast that which is good.
LONDON, Printed by John Macock, for Michael Spark junior, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the blue Bible in Green-Arbour. 1645.