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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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By the Law, constitution and appointment of our Lord Jesus Christ, erecting that Office, and giving warranty for its continuance to the Consummation of all things, Matt. 28.20. Ephes. 4.13. (2.) By his continuance according unto his promise to communicate Spiritual Gifts unto Men, for the Ministerial ⟨p. 48⟩Edification of the Church. That this he doth so continue to do, that is is the principal external Evidence of his abiding in the discharge of his Mediatory Office, and of what nature these gifts are, I have declared at large in a peculiar Discourse on that subject. (3.) On the duty of Believers or of the Church, which is, to choose; call, and solemnly set apart unto the Office of the Ministry, such as the Lord Christ by his Spirit, hath made meet for it, according unto the rule of his word.
By the Law, constitution and appointment of our Lord Jesus Christ, erecting that Office, and giving waranty for its continuance to the Comsumation of all things, Matt. 28.20. Ephes. 4.13. (2.) By his continuance according unto his promise to communicate Spiritual Gifts unto Men, for the Ministerial ⟨p. 48⟩Edification of the Church. That this he doth so continue to do, that is is the principal external Evidence of his abiding in the discharge of his M•diatory Office, and of what nature these gifts are, I have declared at large in a peculiar Discourse on that subject. (3.) On the duty of Believers or of the Church, which is, to choose; call, and so•emnly set apart unto the Office of the Ministry, such as the Lord Christ by his Spirit, hath made meet for it, according unto the rule of his word.