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A guide to church-fellowship and order according to the gospel-institution
A guide to church-fellowship and order according to the gospel-institution wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled, I. The necessity of believers to join themselves in church-order, II. The subject matter of the church, III. The continuation of a church-state, and of the administration of evangelical ordinances of worship, briefly vindicated, IV. What sort of churches the disciples of Christ may and ought to join themselves unto as unto entire communion / by ... John Owen ...A guide to church-fellowship and order according to the gospel-institution wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled, I. The necessity of believers to joyn themselves in church-order, II. The subject matter of the church, III. The continuation of a church-state, and of the administration of evangelical ordinances of worship, briefly vindicated, IV. What sort of churches the disciples of Christ may and ought to joyn themselves unto as unto entire communion / by ... John Owen ...
London: printed for William Marshall, 1692
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(1.) That the contrary Assertion, namely, that Men are not allowed to judge what is mere and best for their own Edification, or not to act according to the Judgment ⟨p. 74⟩they make herein, may possible keep •p some Churches, but is the ready way to destroy all Religion.
(1.) That the contrary Assertion, namely, that Men are not allowed to judge what is meer and best for their own Edification, or not to act according to the Judgment ⟨p. 74⟩they make herein, may possible keep •p some Churches, but is the ready way to destroy all Religion.
(2.) That many of those by whom this Liberty is denied unto professing Christians, yet do indeed take it for granted, that they have such a Liberty, and that it is their Duty to make use of it. For what are all the Contests between the Church of Rome, and the Church of England, so far as Christians, that are not Church-men, are concerned in them? Is it •ot, in whether of these Churches Edification may be best obtained? If this be not the Ball between us, I know not what is. Now herein do all the Writers and Preachers of both Parties give their Reasons and Arguments unto the People, w•y Edification is better to be had in the one Church than in the other? And do they not require of them to form a Judgment upon those Reasons and Arguments, and to act accordingly; if they do not, they do but make a Flourish, and act a Part, like Players on a stage, without any determinate design.
(2.) That many of those by whom this Liberty is denyed unto professing C•ristians, yet do indeed take it for grantd, that they have such a Liberty, and that it is their Duty to make use of it. For what are all the Contests between the Church of Rome, and the Church of England, so far as Christians, that are not Church-men, are concerned in them? Is it ot, in whether of these Churches Edification may be best obtained? If this be not the Ball between us, I know not what is. Now herein do all the Writers and Preachers of both Parties give their Reasons and Arguments unto the People, wy Edification is better to be had in the one Church than in the other? And do they not require of them to form a Judgment upon those Reasons and Arguments, and to act accordingly; if they do not, they do but make a Fourish, and act a Part, like Players on a stage, without any determinate design.