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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 9: The Continuation of a Church-state, and of the Administration of Evangelical Ordinances…
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1. There are express Testimonies of the Will of Christ, ⟨p. 167⟩and his promise for its accomplishment, that the Church and all its Ordinances of Worship should be continued always unto the end of the world. So as to the Church itself, Matth. 16.18. Rev. 21.3. The Ministry, Matth. 28.20. Ephes. 4.13. Baptism, Matth. 28.18, 19, 20. The Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 11.26. As for other Institutions, Public Prayer, Preaching the Word, the Lords day, singing of Gods Praises, the exercise of Discipline with what belongs thereunto, they have their foundation in the Law and Light of Nature, being only directed and applied unto the Gospel-Church-state and Worship, by Rules of especial Institution; and they can no more cease, than the original Obligation of that Law can so do.
1. There are express Testimonies of the Will of Christ, ⟨p. 167⟩and his promise for its accomplishment, that the Church and all its Ordinances of Worship should be continued always unto the end of the world. So as to the Church itself, Matth. 16.18. Rev. 21.3. The Ministry, Matth. 28.20. Ephes. 4.13. Baptism, Matth. 28.18, 19, 20. The Lords Supper,