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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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3. SUCH a Church-state was constituted and appointed under the Old Testament, founded in and on an especial Covenant between God and the People, Exod. 24. Unto this Church every one that would please God, and walk before him, was bound to join himself, by the ways and means that he had appointed for that end; namely, by Circumcision, and their laying hold on the Covenant of God, Exod. 12.48. Isa. 56.4. And this joining unto the Church, is called joining unto the Lord, Isa. 56.6. Jerem. 50.5. as being the means thereof; without which it could not be done. Herein was the Tabernacle of God with men, and he dwelt among them.
3. SUCH a Church-state was constituted and appointed under the Old Testament, founded in and on an especial Covenant between God and the People, Exod. 24. Unto this Church every one that would please God, and walk before him, was bound to joyn himself, by the ways and means that he had appointed for that end; namely, by Circumcision, and their laying hold on the Covenant of God, Exod. 12.48. Isa. 56.4. And this joyning unto the Church, is called joyning unto the Lord, Isa. 56.6. Jerem. 50.5. as being the means thereof; without which it could not be done. Herein was the Tabernacle of God with men, and he dwelt among them.