A53704:869
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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2. He adds secondly, but if he insists on those things common to our Church with other reformed Churches, then they are such things as he supposes contrary to the first institution of Churches, &c.
I fear I do not well understand what this means, nor what it tends unto, but according as I apprehend the sense of it; I say
I fear I do not well understand what this means, nor what it tends unto, but according as I apprehend the sence of it; I say
(1.) I insist principally on such things as are not common unto them with other reformed Churches, but such as are peculiar unto the Church of England. These vary the terms and practice of our Communion, between them and it.
2. The things we except against in Parochial Churches, are not contrary to their first institution as Parochial, which as hath been proved is the only kind of Churches, that is of divine institution; but are contrary unto what is instituted to be done and observed in such Churches; which one observation makes void all that he would infer from the present suppositions; as,