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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
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.
BUT from the beginning it was not so. And some few Instances of the Right of the people, and the exercise of it in the Choice of their own Pastors, may be touched on in our Passage. Clem. Epist. ad Corinth. affirms, That the Apostles themselves appointed approved Persons unto the Office of the Ministry, ⟨p. 79⟩[Greek or Hebrew], by or with the consent or choice of the whole Church. [Greek or Hebrew], is to enact by common consent; which makes it somewhat strange, that a learned Man should think that the Right of the People in Elections is excluded in this very place by Clemens, from what is assigned unto the Apostles in Ordination.
BUT from the beginning it was not so. And some few Instances of the Right of the people, and the exercise of it in the Choice of their own Pastors, may be touched on in our Passage. Clem. Epist. ad Corinth. affirms, That the Apostles themselves appointed approved Persons unto the Office of the Ministry, ⟨p. 79⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉, by or with the consent or choice of the whole Church. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is to enact by common consent; which makes it somewhat strange, that a learned Man should think that the Right of the People in Elections is excluded in this very place by Clemens, from what is assigned unto the Apostles in Ordination.
IGNAT. Epist, ad Philadelph. [Greek or Hebrew], writing to the Fraternity of the Church, It becomes you, as a Church of God, to Choose or Ordain a Bishop.
IGNAT. Epist, ad Philadelph. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, writing to the Fraternity of the Church, It becomes you, as a Church of God, to Choose or Ordain a Bishop.