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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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Chapter 2: The Especial Original of the Evangelical Church-State.
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3. Such an Assumption is derogatory unto the Glory of Christ, especially as unto his Faithfulness in and over the House of God, wherein he is compared unto and preferred above Moses. Heb. 3.3, 4, 5, 6. Now the Faithfulness of Moses consisted in this, that he did, and appointed all things according to the Pattern showed him in the Mount; That is all whatever it was the Will of God to be revealed and appointed for the Constitution, Order, Rule, and Worship of his Church, and nothing else. But it was the Will of God, that there should be all those things in the Gospel Church-State also, or else why do men contend about them? And if this were the Will of God, if they were not all revealed, appointed, prescribed, legalized by Christ, where is his Faithfulness in Answer to that Moses? But no Instance can be given of any Defect in his Institutions, that needs any ⟨p. 36⟩supplement to be made by the best of men, as unto the end of constituting a Church-State, Order, and Rule, with rites of Worship in particular.
3. Such an Assumption is derogatory unto the Glory of Christ, especially as unto his Faithfulness in and over the House of God, wherein he is compared unto and preferred above Moses. Heb. 3.3, 4, 5, 6. Now the Faithfulness of Moses consisted in this, that he did, and appointed all things according to the Pattern shewed him in the Mount; That is all whatever it was the Will of God to be revealed and appointed for the Constitution, Order, Rule, and Worship of his Church, and nothing else. But it was the Will of God, that there should be all those things in the Gospel Church-State also, or else why do men contend about them? And if this were the Will of God, if they were not all revealed, appointed, prescribed, legalized by Christ, where is his Faithfulness in Answer to that Moses? But no Instance can be given of any Defect in his Institutions, that needs any ⟨p. 36⟩supplement to be made by the best of men, as unto the end of constituting a Church-State, Order, and Rule, with rites of Worship in particular.