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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
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.
ADVERTISEMENT.
FOR your further carrying on of this Work, there is another Book Doctor Owen lived to finish, and left it as his last Legacy to the Church, Entitled, The true Nature of a Gospel Church, and its Government, wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled:
FOR your further carrying on of this Work, there is another Book Doctor Owen liv'd to finish, and left it as his last Legacy to the Church, Intituled, The true Nature of a Gospel Church, and its Government, wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled:
I. The Subject Matter of the Church. II. Formal Cause of a particular Church. III. Of the Polity, Rule, or Discipline of the Church in General. IV. The Officers of the Church. V. The Duty of Pastors of Churches. VI. The Office of Teachers in the Church. VII. Of the Rule of the Church, or of Ruling Elders. VIII. The Nature of the Polity or Rule, with the Duty of Elders. IX. Of Deacons. X. Excommunication. XI. Of the Communion of Churches.
In large Quarto, price bound 3s.