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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.
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OF the Subject Matter of the Church: You may be satisfied farther in a Book lately Published: Entitled, T•e true Nature of a Gospel Church and its Government: •y the same Author, wherein those following particulars are distinctly handled.
OF the Subject Matter of the Church: You may be sa•isfied farther in a Book l•tely Published: Intituled, T•e true Nature of a G•spel Church and its Government: •y the same Author, wherein those following particulars are distinctly handled.
I. The Subject Matter of the Church. II. Formal Cause of a particular Church. III. Of the Polity unto, 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.