Answer — 1To discern and judge by the rule of truth, applied in love, between sincere professors and hypocritical pretenders; 2to influence, direct, comfort, and encourage in the way, such as they judge to love the Lord Jesus in sincerity; 3to propose and recommend them unto the whole church, with prayers and supplications to God for them; 4to admit them, being approved, into the order and fellowship of the gospel in the church.


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Footnotes

  1. Acts viii. 20, 23; Titus i. 10; Rev. ii. 2; Jer. xv. 19. ↩

  2. Acts xviii. 26; 1 Thess. ii. 7, 8, 11. ↩

  3. Acts ix. 27, 28. ↩

  4. Rom. xiv. 1. ↩