A53704:895
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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His second exception is unto a saying which I Quoted out of Justice Hobart's Reports, who saith, We know well that the Primitive Church in its greatest purity was but voluntary Congregations of Believers, submitting themselves to the Apostles and other Pastors, to whom they did minister of their temporals as God did move them. Hereunto with a Reflection on a dead man, I know not why, he replies, that this is not to the purpose, or rather quite overthrows my hypothesis. But why so? He will prove it with two Arguments,
His second exception is unto a saying which I Quoted out of Justice Hobarts Reports, who saith, We know well that the Primitive Church in its greatest purity was but voluntary Congregations of Believers, submitting themselves to the Apostles and other Pastors, to whom they did minister of their temporals as God did move them. Hereunto with a Reflection on a dead man, I know not why, he replies, that this is not to the purpose, or rather quite overthrows my hypothesis. But why so? He will prove it with two Arguments,
The first is this, Those voluntary Congregations over which the Apostles were set, were no limited Congregations of any one particular Church, but those Congregations over which the Apostles were set are those of which Justice Hobart speaks, and therefore it is plain he spake of all the Churches which were under the care of the Apostles, which he calls voluntary Congregations.
Answ. 1. Whereas this Argument seems to be cast into the form of a Syllogism, I could easily manifest how asyllogistical it is, did I delight to contend with him, or any else. But
Answ. 1. Whereas this Argument seems to be cast into the form of a Syllogisme, I could easily manifest how asyllogistical it is, did I delight to contend with him, or any else. But