A53704:674
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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I judge that in the Beginning of the Chapter the Apostle intends those of the first sort, and that as well because he calls them Dogs and the Concision, which answers unto the Account he gives of them, 1 Thes. 2.14, 15; as also because he speaks of them as those who advanced the pretended Privileges of Judaism, absolutely against Christ, the Gospel, and the Righteousness of God revealed therein. Hereon in opposition unto them, he declares that they had nothing to boast of, but what he himself had a Right unto as well as they, and which he had voluntarily relinquished and renounced for Christ and the Gospel, wherein he testifies what he had attained. ⟨p. 264⟩If any one do judge, that he intend those of the second sort, I will not contend about it, because of the severity of Expression which he useth concerning them, Gal. 5.12. But discharging the consideration of them, the Direction in this place concerns those of the third sort only, answering unto that which was prescribed and followed by the Apostles in all Places, namely, that there should be mutual Forbearance, in some Difference of Practise between them and the Gentile Believers.
I judge that in the Beginning of the Chapter the Apostle intends those of the first sort, and that as well because he calls them Dogs and the Concision, which answers unto the Account he gives of them, 1 Thes. 2.14, 15; as also because he speaks of them as those who advanced the pretended Priviledges of Judaisme, absolutely against Christ, the Gospel, and the Righteousness of God revealed therein. Hereon in opposition unto them, he declares that they had nothing to boast of, but what he himself had a Right unto as well as they, and which he had voluntarily relinquished and renounced for Christ and the Gospel, wherein he testifies what he had attained. ⟨p. 264⟩If any one do judge, that he intend those of the second sort, I will not contend about it, because of the severity of Expression which he useth concerning them,