A53704:439
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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8: This is true both positively and negatively of the Catholic Church Invisible of the Elect: All that are of it shall be saved; and none shall be saved but those that belong unto it, Ephes. 5.25, 26, 27. Of the Catholic visible professing Church negatively; that no Adult person can be saved, that doth not belong unto this Church, Rom. 10.10.
8: This is true both positively and negatively of the Catholick Church Invisible of the Elect: All that are of it shall be saved; and none shall be saved but those that belong unto it, Ephes. 5.25, 26, 27. Of the Catholick visible professing Church negatively; that no Adult person can be saved, that doth not belong unto this Church, Rom. 10.10.
9. This Position of Truth is abused by Interest and Pride; an enclosure of it being made by them, who of all Christians in the world can lay the least and weakest claim unto it; namely, the Church of Rome. For they are so far from being that Catholic Church, out of which there is no Salvation, and wherein none can perish, like the Ark of Noah, that it requires the highest charity to reckon them unto that visible professing Church, whereof the greatest part may perish; and do so undoubtedly.
9. This Position of Truth is abused by Interest and Pride; an enclosure of it being made by them, who of all Christians in the world can lay the least and weakest claim unto it; namely, the Church of Rome. For they are so far from being that Catholick Church, out of which there is no Salvation, and wherein none can perish, like the Ark of Noah, that it requires the highest charity to reckon them unto that visible professing Church, whereof the greatest part may perish; and do so undoubtedly.