A53704:915
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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for his Diocesan Church, consisteth of many distinct Churches with their distinct Officers, Order and Power, as he afterwards describes our Parishes to do under one Bishop. Yet such is his apprehension of the Justice of his ⟨p. 356⟩cause, that what hath been pleaded twenty times against it, namely, That speaking of one City the Scripture still calls it the Church of that place, but speaking of a Province as Judea, Galilee, Samaria, Galatia, Macedonia, it speaks of the Churches of them, which evidently proves, that it knows nothing of a Diocesan, Provincial or National Church; he produceth in the justification of it, because he saith, that it is evident then, that there was but one Church in one City, which was never denied. There were indeed then many Bishops in one Church, Phil. 1.1. Acts 20.28. And afterwards when one Church had one Bishop only, yet there were two Bishops in one City, which requires two Churches, as Epiphanus affirms, [Greek or Hebrew]. Haeres. 68. S. 6.
for his Diocesan Church, consisteth of many distinct Churches with their distinct Officers, Order and Power, as he afterwards describes our Parishes to do under one Bishop. Yet such is his apprehension of the Justice of his ⟨p. 356⟩cause, that what hath been pleaded twenty times against it, namely, That speaking of one City the Scripture still calls it the Church of that place, but speaking of a Province as Judea, Galilee, Samaria, Galatia, Macedonia, it speaks of the Churches of them, which evidently proves, that it knows nothing of a Diocesan, Provincial or National Church; he produceth in the justification of it, because he saith, that it is evident the•ne, that there was but one Church in one City, which was never denyed. There were indeed then many Bishops in one Church, Phil. 1.1. Acts 20.28. And afterwards when one Church had one Bishop only, yet there were two Bishops in one City, which requires two Churches, as Epiphanus affirms, . Haeres. 68. S. 6.