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The true nature of a Gospel church and its government
The true nature of a Gospel church and its government ... by the late pious and learned minister of the Gospel, John Owen ...
London: printed for William Marshall, 1689
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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.
CHAP. IV. The Officers of the Church.
THE Church is considered either as it is Essential with respect unto its Nature and Being; or as it is Organical with respect unto its Order.
THE constituent causes and parts of the Church as unto its Essence and Being, are its Institution, Matter and Form; whereof we have treated.
ITS Order as it is Organical, is founded in that communication of Power unto it from Christ, which was insisted on in the foregoing Chapter.
THE Organizing of a Church, is the placing or implanting in it those Officers which the Lord Jesus Christ hath appointed to act and exercise his Authority therein.