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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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4. AS a new Church-state is prophesied of under the New Testament. Ezek. 34.25, 26, 27. Isa. 66.18, 19, 20, 21, 22. and other places innumerable; so it was actually erected by Jesus Christ, as we have declared. And whereas it is introduced and established in the place and ⟨p. 18⟩room of the Church-state under the Old Testament, which was to be removed at the time of Reformation, as the Apostle demonstrates at large in his Epistle to the Hebrews; all the commands, promises, and threatenings given or annexed unto that Church-state, concerning the conjunction of men unto it, and walking in it, are transferred unto this of the new erection of Christ. Wherefore although the State of the Church it self, be reduced from that which was Nationally Congregational, unto that which is simply and absolutely so; and all Ordinances of its instituted worship are changed, with new rules for the observation of what we are directed unto by the light of Nature: yet the commands, promises, and threatenings, made and given unto it as a Church, are all in full force with respect unto this new Church-state; and we need no new commands to render it our duty to join in Evangelical Churches, for the ends of a Church in general.
4. AS a new Church-state is prophesied of under the New Testament. Ezek. 34.25, 26, 27. Isa. 66.18, 19, 20, 21, 22. and other places innumerable; so it was actually erected by Jesus Christ, as we have declared. And whereas it is introduced and established in the place and ⟨p. 18⟩room of the Church-state under the Old Testament, which was to be removed at the time of Reformation, as the Apostle demonstrates at large in his Epistle to the Hebrews; all the commands, promises, and threatnings given or annexed unto that Church-state, concerning the conjunction of men unto it, and walking in it, are transferred unto this of the new erection of Christ. Wherefore although the State of the Church it self, be reduced from that which was Nationally Congregational, unto that which is simply and absolutely so; and all Ordinances of its instituted worship are changed, with new rules for the observation of what we are directed unto by the light of Nture: yet the commands, promises, and threatnings, made and given unto it as a Church, are all in full force with respect unto this new Church-state; and we need no new commands to render it our duty to joyn in Evangelical Churches, for the ends of a Church in general.