A53704:722
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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(1.) That those who are lawful Governors, or pretend themselves so to be, may impose what they please without Control, as they did in the Papacy, and the Councils of it. But
(1.) That those who are lawful Governours, or pretend themselves so to be, may impose what they please without Controul, as they did in the Papacy, and the Councils of it. But
(2.) Their Imposition was merely doctrinal, wherein there was no Pretence of any Act of Government or governing Power; which made it less grievous, then that which the Dissenters have suffered under. Were things no otherwise imposed on us, we should bear them more easily.
(2.) Their Imposition was meerly doctrinal, wherein there was no Pretence of any Act of Government or governing Power; which made it less grievous, then that which the Dissenters have suffered under. Were things no otherwise imposed on us, we should bear them more easily.
(2.) Saith he, They imposed the Jewish Rites as necessary to Salvation, and not merely as indifferent things; And the Truth is, so long as they judged them so to be, they are more to be excused in their doctrinal Impositions of them, then others are, who by an Act of Government fortified with I know not how many Penalties, do impose things which themselves esteem indifferent; and those on whom they are imposed, do judge to be unlawful.
(2.) Saith he, They imposed the Jewish Rites as necessary to Salvation, and not meerly as indifferent things; And the Truth is, so long as they judged them so to be, they are more to be excused in their doctrinal Impositions of them, then others are, who by an Act of Government fortified with I know not how many Penalties, do impose things which themselves esteem indifferent; and those on whom they are imposed, do judge to be unlawful.