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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. IV. What sort of Churches the Disciples of Christ, may, and ought to join themselves unto as unto Entire Communion.
CHAP. IV. What sort of Churches the Disciples of Christ, may, and ought to joyn themselves unto as unto Entire Communion.
WE have proved before that it is the Duty of all individual Christians, to give themselves up unto the Conduct, Fellowship and Communion of some particular Church or Congregation. Our present Enquiry hereon is, that whereas there is a great Diversity among professing Societies in the World, concerning each whereof it is said, L• here is Christ, and Lo there is Christ, what Church, of what Constitution and Order, any one that takes care of his own Edification and Salvation, ought to join himself unto. This I shall speak unto first in General, and then in the Examination of one particular Case or Instance, wherein many at this day are concerned. And •ome things must be premised unto the right stating of the Subject of our Enquiry.
WE have proved before that it is the Duty of all individual Christians, to give themselves up unto the Conduct, Fellowstip and Communion of some particular Church or Congregation. Our present Enquiry he•eon is, that whereas there is a great Diversity among professing Societies in the World, concerning each whereof it is said, L• here is Christ, and Lo there is Christ, what Church, of what Constitution and Order, any one that takes care of his own Edification and Salvation, ought to joyn himself unto. This I shall speak unto first in General, and then in the Examination of one particular Case or Instance, wherein many at this day are concerned. And •ome things must be premised unto the right stating of the Subject of our Enquiry.