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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 5: The Sate of the First Churches after the Apostles to the end of the Second Century.
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.
This was their state, this was their Liturgy, this their practice. (1.) There was on all the Members of the Church a plentiful effusion of the Holy Spirit in his Gifts and Graces; wherein, it may be, respect is had unto what was affirmed by the Apostle before of the same Church, 1 Cor. 1.4, 5, 6, 7. the same Grace being yet continued unto them. (2.) By virtue of this Effusion of the Spirit on all of them, their Wills and Affections being sanctified, their minds were enabled to pour forth fervent prayers unto God. (3.) They were not such as lived in any open sin, or any secret sin, known to be so, but were only ⟨p. 94⟩subject unto involuntary surprisals, whose pardon they continually prayed for. (4.) Their love and sense of duty stirred them up to labour mightily in their Prayers with fervency and constancy, for the Salvation of the whole Fraternity of Elect Believers, whether throughout the world, or more especially those in and of their own Church.
This was their state, this was their Liturgie, this their practice. (1.) There was on all the Members of the Church a plentiful effusion of the Holy Spirit in his Gifts and Graces; wherein, it may be, respect is had unto what was affirmed by the Apostle before of the same Church, 1 Cor. 1.4, 5, 6, 7. the same Grace being yet continued unto them. (2.) By vertue of this Effusion of the Spirit on all of them, their Wills and Affections being sanctifyed, their minds were enabled to pour forth fervent prayers unto God. (3.) They were not such as lived in any open sin, or any secret sin, known to be so, but were only ⟨p. 94⟩subject unto involuntary surprizals, whose pardon they continually prayed for. (4.) Their love and sense of duty stirred them up to labour mightily in their Prayers with fervency and constancy, for the Salvation of the whole Fraternity of Elect Believers, whether throughout the world, or more especial•y those in and of their own Church.