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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.
4. Nor can any Man be obliged to join himself with any Church, nor can it be his Duty so to do, where the Eternally fixed Rule and Measure of Religious Worship, namely, that it be of Divine Institution, is varied or change by any Additions unto it, or Substractions from it. For whereas one principal end of all churches is the joint celebration of Divine Worship, if there be not a certain stable Rule thereof in any Church of Divine Prescription, no ⟨p. 61⟩Man can be obliged unto Communion therewith.
4. Nor can any Man be obliged to joyn himself with any Church, nor can it be his Duty so to do, where the Eternally fixed Rule and Measure of Religious Worship, namely, that it be of Divine Institution, is varied or change by any Additions unto it, or Substractions from it. For whereas one principal end of all •hurches is the joynt celebration of Divine VVorship, if there be not a certain stable Rule thereof in any Church of Divine Prescription, no ⟨p. 61⟩Man can be obliged unto Communion therewith.
5. Where the Fundamentals of Church Order, Practice and Discipline are destroyed, it is not lawful for any man to join in Church Communion. These Fundamentals are of two sorts; (1.) Such as concern the Ministry of the Church; (2.) Such as concern the Church it self.
5. Where the Fundamentals of Church Order, Practice and Discipline are destroyed, it is not lawful for any man to joyn in Church Communion. These Fundam•ntals are of two sorts; (1.) Such as concern the Ministry of the Church; (2.) Such as concern the Church it self.