A53704:637
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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But the Doctor proceeds unto a second Argument pag. 163, to the same Purpose, from, as he calls it, the particular force of that Text, Phil. 3.16. As far as we ⟨p. 254⟩have already attained let us walk by the same Rule, mind the same things. This is the Text which gave the first occasion unto this whole Dispute; The Doctors Intention is so indefensible from this place, that I thought however he might persist in the Defence of the Cause he had undertaken, he would have forborne from seeking Countenance unto it from these Words of the Apostle. But it is fallen out otherwise, and I am here in the first place called unto an Account, for the Exceptions I put in, unto his Application of these Words of the Apostle, in my Vindication of the Non-conformists.
But the Doctor proceeds unto a second Argument pag. 163, to the same Purpose, from, as he calls it, the particular force of that Text, Phil. 3.16. As far as we ⟨p. 254⟩have already attained let us walk by the same Rule, mind the same things. This is the Text which gave the first occasion unto this whole Dispute; The Doctors Intention is so indefensible from this place, that I thought however he might persist in the Defence of the Cause he had undertaken, he would have forborn from seeking Comtenance unto it from these Words of the Apostle. But it is fallen out otherwise, and I am here in the first place called unto an Account, for the Exceptions I put in, unto his Application of these Words of the Apostle, in my Vindication of the Non-conformists.
I will spare the Reader as much as is possible in the Repetition of things formerly spoken, and the Transcription of his Words or my own, without prejudice unto the Cause itself.