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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 11: Of Conformity and Communion in Parochial Assemblies.
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.
(2.) Who are profane Scoffers at all true Christian Piety and the due expressions of the Power of Godliness, an Evil not confined unto the Laity; such things being uttered and published by them, as should be astonishable unto all that know the Fear of the Lord and his Terror.
(2.) Who are prophane Scoffers at all true Christian Piety and the due expressions of the Power of Godliness, an Evil not confined unto the Laity; such things being uttered and published by them, as should be astonishable unto all that know the Fear of the Lord and his Terror.
(3.) Who are profoundly Ignorant of the Mysteries of the Gospel, or those Doctrines of Christian Religion whose knowledge is of the highest importance and necessity.
(4.) Who are openly flagitious in their Lives, whence all sorts of gross Immoralities do fill the Land from one end unto the other.