A53704:657
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.
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.
But on the Occasion of that Expression, being otherwise minded, He demands, what sense can Dr. O. here put upon the being otherwise Minded; Otherwise then what? As many as be perfect be thus minded, to pursue your main End; but if any be otherwise minded; did any think they ought not to mind chiefly their great end; that is incredible. Therefore the Apostle must be understood of somewhat about which there were then very different Apprehensions; and that it is certain there were, about the Law, among Christian Churches.
Neither do I well understand these things, or what is intended in them. For,
(1.) I never gave occasion to him or any else to think, that I would affix such a sense unto the Apostles Words, as if they gave an Allowance to men to be otherwise minded, as unto the pursuit of their main End, ⟨p. 259⟩of living to God in Faith and Love, with mutual Peace among themselves.