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as","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:16"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"60","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/60","segments":[{"text":"And cannot be satisfied till it come to the full enjoyment of him.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:5"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"Prayer is an antecedent duty to hearing the Word, and that both for the assistance of the Minister,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"It signifies the removal of all impediments, that hinder its propagation in the world,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"But (1.) Because we must have a Covenant right to it. and (2.) A civil right; we must come lawfully and honestly by, and so keep the good things of this life.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:10"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"The Prayer which is required before hearing the Word, is Prayer in secret and in our Families for Gods assistance of his Ministers in Preaching the Word to us and for his blessing the Word and making it effectual to us by his spirit in our hearing of it. Pray for us that the Word of the Lord may have free course & be glorified.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"That which our Saviour required of teaching and an actual profession of Faith before Baptism, is to be understood of the Heathen Nations, unto whom he sendeth his Apostles to preach, who without this, were not to be baptized: but there is not the same reason concerning the infants of such who are themselves members of the visible Church. 2. The Infants of Church-members being uncapable of being taught, and making an actual profession of Faith, doth no more exclude them the priviledge of Baptism, than their being uncapable of working doth exclude them the liberty of eating, when the command is express, If any work not, neither shall he eat:","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:10"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"102","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/102","segments":[{"text":"3. In particular, that our selves and others might be brought into this Kingdom of Gods Grace by the power and efficacy of Gods word and spirit in our conversion, Finally brethren pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have a free course and be glorified, even as it is with you.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"102","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/102","segments":[{"text":"4. We are to pray, that our selves, and others, may be brought into the Kingdom of Grace, and kept in it.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Lord direct our Hearts into his love,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"101","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/101","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That the Word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"104","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/104","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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Who are to excommunicate, namely such as haue authoritie in the Church.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:6"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"euen as to a brother,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:15"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"honest labour,","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:8"]},{"text":"and lawfull vocations to liue, and thriue by.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:8"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"receiued as members of Christ and his Church.","proofs":["2 Thessalonians 3:14–15"]}]}]}