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Bunyan Characters - Third Series

CHAPTER XXIII--THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF MANSOUL, AND MR
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And, then, there was another thing that I do not know how better to describe than by calling it the true catholicity, the true humility, and the true hospitality of the man.

It is true he had no choice in the matter, for in setting up a standing ministry in Mansoul Emmanuel had done so with this reservation and addition.

We have His very words.

'Not that you are to have your ministers alone,' He said.

'For my four captains, they can, if need be, and if they be required, not only privately inform, but publicly preach both good and wholesome doctrine, that, if heeded, will do thee good in the end.' Which, again, reminds me of what Oliver Cromwell wrote to the Honourable Colonel Hacker at Peebles.


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