A53704:423
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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CHAP. VIII. The Duty of Believers to join themselves in Church-Order.
CHAP. VIII. The Duty of Believers to joyn themselves in Church-Order.
Unto some one, or other of those particular Congregations which we have described, continuing to be the ground and pillar of Truth, it is the duty of every Believer, of every Disciple of Christ, to join himself, for the due and orderly observation and performance of the commands of Christ, unto the glory of God, and their own edification, Matth. 28.18, 19, 20.
UNto some one, or other of those particular Congregations which we have described, continuing to be the ground and pillar of Truth, it is the duty of every Believer, of every Disciple of Christ, to joyn himself, for the due and orderly observation and performance of the commands of Christ, unto the glory of God, and their own edification, Matth. 28.18, 19, 20.
This in general is granted by all sorts and Parties of men: the grant of it, is the ground whereon they stand in the management of their mutual feuds in Religion, pleading that men ought to be of, or join themselves unto this or that Church, still supposing that it is their Duty to be of one or another.
This in general is granted by all sorts and Parties of men: the grant of it, is the ground whereon they stand in the management of their mutual fewds in Religion, pleading that men ought to be of, or joyn themselves unto this or that Church, still supposing that it is their Duty to be of one or another.