A53704:138
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Something I Judge necessary to add concerning My Engagement, or rather Surprisal into this Controversy, against my Inclination and Resolution.
Something I Judge necessary to add concerning My Ingagement, or rather Surprisal into this Controversie, against my Inclination and Resolution.
The Dr. tells us, Pref. p. 51. That when his Sermon came first out, it went down quietly enough; and many of the ⟨p. 67⟩People began to read and consider it, being pleased to find so weighty and necessary a Point debated with so much calmness and freedom from passion; which being discovered by the Leaders and Managers of the Party, it was soon resolved that the Sermon must be cried down, and the People dissuaded from reading of it. If any of them were talked withal about it, they shrunk up their shoulders and looked sternly; and shook their heads, and hardly forbore some bitter words, both of the Author and the Sermon: (which it seems he knows, though they did forbear to do so;) and much more to the same Purpose. And pag. 58. As if they had been the Papists Instruments to execute the fury of their wrath and displeasure against me, they summon in the Power of their Party, and resolve with their force and might to fall upon me; with more to the same Purpose. And pag. 59. After a while they thought fit to draw their strength into the Open Field; and the first who appeared was; &c.
The Dr. tells us, Pref. p. 51. That when his Sermon came first out, it went down quietly enough; and many of the ⟨p. 67⟩People began to read and consider it, being pleased to find so weighty and necessary a Point debated with so much calmness and freedom from passion; which being discovered by the Leaders and Managers of the Party, it was soon resolved that the Sermon must be cried down, and the People disswaded from reading of it. If any of them were talked withal about it, they shrunk up their shoulders and looked sternly; and shook their heads, and hardly forbore some bitter words, both of the Author and the Sermon: (which it seems he knows, though they did forbear to do so;) and much more to the same Purpose. And pag. 58. As if they had been the Papists Instruments to execute the fury of their wrath and displeasure against me, they summon in the Power of their Party, and resolve with their force and might to fall upon me; with more to the same Purpose. And pag. 59. After a while they thought fit to draw their strength into the Open Feild; and the first who appeared was; &c.