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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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CHAP. I. The Necessity of Believers to join themselves in Church-Order.
CHAP. I. The Necessity of Believers to joyn themselves in Church-Order.
IT is the Duty of every Believer, of every Disciple of Christ, to join himself, for the due and orderly observation and performance of the Comm•nds of Christ, unto the Glory of God, and their own Edification, Ma•th. 28.18, 19, 20.
IT is the Duty of every Believer, of every Disciple of Christ, to joyn himself, for the due and orderly observation and performance of the Comm•nds of Christ, unto the Glory of God, and their own Edification, Ma•th. 28.18, 19, 20.
This in general is gr•nted by all sorts and Parties of men; the grant of it, is the ground whereon they stand in the management of their mutual fe•ds in Religion, pleading that men ought to be ⟨p. 4⟩of, or join themselves unto this or that Church, still supposing t•at it is their Duty to be of one or another.