A53704:115
An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches.…
An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches. The first part with an answer to the discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of Pauls, and in defence of the vindication of non-conformists from the guilt of schism / by John Owen.An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches. The first part with an answer to the discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of Pauls, and in defence of the vindication of non-conformists from the guilt of schisme / by John Owen.
London: printed by J. Richardson for Nath. Ponder, 1681
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But yet when all is done, it will appear, that mutual Forbearance, first removing Animosities, then administering Occasion of inoffensive Converse, unto the revival of decayed Affections, leading unto sedate Conferences and Considerations of a more entire conjunction in the things whereunto we have attained, will more conduce unto Universal Peace and Gospel Unity, than the most fierce contentions about things in difference, or the most vehement Charges of Schism against Dissenters.
But yet when all is done, it will appear, that mutual Forbearance, first removing Animosities, then administring Occasion of inoffensive Converse, unto the revival of decayed Affections, leading unto sedate Conferences and Considerations of a more entire conjunction in the things whereunto we have attained, will more conduce unto Universal Peace and Gospel Unity, than the most fierce contentions about things in difference, or the most vehement Charges of Schisme against Dissenters.
But I must return to the Argument, and shall add something giving Light into the Nature of Schism, from an Instance in the Primitive Churches.
That which is first in any kind, gives the Measure of what follows in the same kind, and Light into the Nature of them. Whereas therefore the Schism that was among the Churches about the Observation of Easter, was the first that fell out unto the Disturbance of their Communion, I shall give a brief account of it, as far as the Question in hand is concerned in it.
That which is first in any kind, gives the Measure of what follows in the same kind, and Light into the Nature of them. Whereas therefore the Schisme that was among the Churches about the Observation of Easter, was the first that fell out unto the Disturbance of their Communion, I shall give a breif account of it, as far as the Question in hand is concerned in it.