A53704:832
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.
(2.) What false Doctrine it is, which is of this Importance, as to justify Separation, is not easily determinable.
(2.) What false Doctrine it is, which is of this Importance, as to justifie Separation, is not easily determinable.
(3.) If the Guides and Governors of the Church do ⟨p. 333⟩teach this false Doctrine, who shall judge of it, and determine it so to be, and that ultimately, so as to separate from a Church thereon, shall the People do it themselves? are they meet? are they Competent for it? are they to make such a Judgement on the Doctrine of their Guides; do they know what is heresy; have they read Epiphanius or Binius? How comes this allowance to be made unto them, which else where is denied?
(3.) If the Guides and Governours of the Church do ⟨p. 333⟩teach this false Doctrine, who shall judge of it, and determine it so to be, and that ultimately, so as to separate from a Church thereon, shall the People do it themselves? are they meet? are they Competent for it? are they to make such a Judgement on the Doctrine of their Guides; do they know what is heresie; have they read Epiphanius or Binius? How comes this allowance to be made unto them, which else where is denied?
The Third is; in Case Men make things indifferent necessary to Salvation and divide the Church on that account. But,