A53704:602
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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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.
1. That the Church continued its state and outward Communion. There is no mention of any that separated from it, that constituted a New Church; only in the same Church they agreed not, but were divided among themselves. Want of Love and Forbearance, attended with strife and contention, among the Members of the same Church, abiding in the same outward Communion, was the Schism they were Guilty of.
1. That the Church continued its state and outward Communion. There is no mention of any that separated from it, that constituted a New Church; only in the same Church they agreed not, but were divided among themselves. Want of Love and Forbearance, attended with strife and contention, among the Members of the same Church, abiding in the same outward Communion, was the Schisme they were Guilty of.
2. The Effect of this Schism was, that the Body of the Church, or Multitudes of the Members, by the Instigation of some few disorderly Persons, had deposed their Elders and Rulers from their Offices, and probably had ⟨p. 234⟩chosen others in their places, though that be not mentioned expressly in the Epistle.
2. The Effect of this Schisme was, that the Body of the Church, or Multitudes of the Members, by the Instigation of some few disorderly Persons, had deposed their Elders and Rulers from their Offices, and probably had ⟨p. 234⟩chosen others in their places, though that be not mentioned expresly in the Epistle.