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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.
It will be said that this defect is supplied, in that the Administration of Church Discipline is committed unto others, namely, the Bishops and their Officers, that are more meet and able for it, than the Ministers and People of Parochial Assemblies. What therefore is wanting in them, is supplied fully another way, so that no Pretence ⟨p. 222⟩can be taken from hence, for refraining Communion in them. But it will be said,
It will be said that this defect is supplyed, in that the Administration of Church Discipline is committed unto others, namely, the Bishops and their Officers, that are more meet and able for it, than the Ministers and People of Parochial Assemblies. What therefore is wanting in them, is supplied fully another way, so that no Pretence ⟨p. 222⟩can be taken from hence, for refraining Communion in them. But it will be said,
(1.) That this Discipline is not to be placed where and in what hands men please, but to be left where Christ hath disposed it.
(2.) That one Reason of the unmeetness of Parochial Churches for the Exercise of this Discipline, is because they have been unjustly deprived of it for so many Ages.