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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.
5. In this Church he mentions only two sorts of Officers, ⟨p. 109⟩[Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], Presidents and Deacons. Of the first sort, in the Duty of one of their Assemblies •e mentions but one; [Greek or Hebrew], the President, the Ruler, the Bishop, to whom belonged the Administration of all the holy Mysteries. And that we may not think that he is called the [Greek or Hebrew], with respect unto any Preeminence over other Ministers or Elders, like a Diocesan Bishop, he terms him, [Greek or Hebrew], he that presided over the Brethren of that Church. Now certainly that Church wherein one President, Elder, Presbyter, or Bishop, did administer the Holy Ordinances in one place unto all the Members of it, was a particular Congregation.
5. In this Church he mentions only two sorts of Officers, ⟨p. 109⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Presidents and Deacons. Of the first sort, in the Duty of one of their Assemblies •e mentions but one; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the President, the Ruler, the Bishop, to whom belonged the Administration of all the holy Mysteries. And that we may not think that he is called the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, with respect unto any Preheminence over other Ministers or Elders, like a Diocesan Bishop, he terms him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he that presided over the Brethren of that Church. Now certainly that Church wherein one President, Elder, Presbyter, or Bishop, did administer the Holy Ordinances in one place unto all the Members of it, was a particular Congregation.