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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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1. There are express Testimonies of the Will of Christ, and his promise for its accomplishment, that the Church and all its Ordinances of Worship should be continued always unto the end of the world. So as to the Church it self, Matth. 16.13. Rev. 21.3. The Ministry, Matth. 28.20. Ephes. 4.13. Baptism, Matth. 28.18, 19, 20. The Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 11.26. As for other Institutions, Public Prayer, Preaching the word, the Lords day, singing of Gods Praises, the exercise of Discipline with what belongs thereunto, they have ⟨p. 51⟩their foundation in the Law and Light of Nature, being only directed and applied unto the Gospel-Church-state and worship, by Rules of especial Institution, and they can no more cease, than the original Obligation of that Law can so do.
1. There are express Testimonies of the Will of Christ, and his promise for its accomplishment, that the Church and all its Ordinances of Worship should be continued always unto the end of the world. So as to the Church it self, Matth. 16.13. Rev. 21.3. The Ministry, Matth. 28.20. Ephes. 4.13. Baptism, Matth. 28.18, 19, 20. The Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 11.26. As for other Institutions, Publick Prayer, Preaching the word, the Lords day, singing of Gods Praises, the exercise of Discipline with what belongs thereunto, they have