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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.
1. THAT if there be no more required of any as unto Personal Qualifications in a visible uncontrollable profession, to constitute them Subjects of Christs Kingdom,1 and Members of his Church, but what is required by the most righteous and severe Laws of men to constitute a good Subject or Citizen, the distinction between his visible Kingdom and the ⟨p. 24⟩Kingdoms of the World, as unto the principal causes of it, is utterly lost. No• all negative Qualifications, as that Men are not Oppressors, Drunkards, Revilers, Swearers, Adulterers, &c. are required hereunto. But yet it is so fallen out, that generally more is required to constitute such a Citizen as shall represent the righteous Laws he liveth under, than to constitute a Member of the Church of Christ.
1. THAT if there be no more required of any as unto Personal Qualifications in a visible uncontroulable profession, to constitute them Subjects of Christs Kingdom,1 and Members of his Church, but what is required by the most righteous and severe Laws of men to constitute a good Subject or Citizen, the distinction between his visible Kingdom and the ⟨p. 24⟩Kingdoms of the World, as unto the principal causes of it, is utterly lost. No• all negative Qualifications, as that Men are not Oppressors, Drunkards, Revilers, Swearers, Adulterers, &c. are required hereunto. But yet it is so fallen out, that generally more is required to constitute such a Citizen as shall represent the righteous Laws he liveth under, than to constitute a Member of the Church of Christ.