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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
Chapter 3: The Continuation of a Church-state▪ and of the Administration of Evangelical Ordinances…
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CHAP. III. The Continuation of a Church-state▪ and of the Administration of Evangelical Ordinances of Worship, briefly Vindicated.
THE Controversy about the Continuation of a Church-state, and the Administration of Gospel Ordinances of Worship, is not new, in this Age, though some pride themselves, as though the Invention of the Error whereby they are denied, were their own: In former Ages, both in the Papacy, and among some of them that forsook it, there were divers who on a pretence of a peculiar Spiritually, and imaginary Attainments in Religion, wherein these things are unnecessary, rejected their Observation. I suppose it necessary briefly to confirm the Truth, and Vindicate it from this exception, because though it be sufficiently weak in it self, yet what it is, lies against the Foundation of all that we are pleading about. But to reduce things into the lesser compass; I shall first confirm the Truth by those Arguments or Considerations, which will defeat all the Pleas and Pretences of ⟨p. 40⟩them, by whom it is opposed; and then confirm it by positive Testimonies and Arguments, with all Brevity possible.
THE Controversie about the Continuation of a Church-state, and the Administration of Gospel Ordinances of Worship, is not new, in this Age, though some pride the•selves, as though the Invention of the Error whereby they are denied, were their own: In former Ages, both in the Papacy, and among some of them that forsook it, there were divers who on a pretence of a peculiar Spiritually, and imaginary Attainments in Religion, wherein these things are unnecessary, rejected their Observation. I s•pp•se it necessary briefly to confirm the Tru•h, and Vindicate it from this exception, because though it be sufficiently w•ak in it self, yet what it is, lies against the Foundation of all that we are pleading about. But to reduce things into the lesser compass; I shall first confirm the Truth by those Arguments or Considerations, which will defeat all the Pleas and Pretences of