A53689:279
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Zion. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Syon. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, 1648
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4 Utterly reject and separate from such as have had means of conviction and admonition, ⟨p. 93⟩Titus 3. 10.
5. Not to receive any without testimony from some of the brethrens of known integrity in the Churches; such is the misery of our days, that men will run to hear those, that they know not from whence they come, nor what they are; the laudable practise of the first Churches, to give testimonials to them that were to pass from one place to another, 1 Cor. 16. 3. and not to receive any without them, Acts 9. 26. is quite laid aside.
5. Not to receive any without testimony from some of the brethrens of known integrity in the Churches; such is the misery of our daies, that men will run to heare those, that they know not from whence they come, nor what they are; the laudable practise of the first Churches, to give testimonials to them that were to passe from one place to another, 1 Cor. 16. 3. and not to receive any without them, Acts 9. 26. is quite laid aside.
6. To walk orderly, not attending to the doctrine of any, not known to, and approved by the Churches.