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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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ORIGEN, in the close of his last Book against Celsus, discoursing expressly of the Calling and Constitution of Churches or Cities of God, speaking of the Elders and Rulers of them, affirms, That they are [Greek or Hebrew], Chosen to their Office by the Churches which they do Rule.
ORIGEN, in the close of his last Book against Celsus, discoursing expresly of the Calling and Constitution of Churches or Cities of God, speaking of the Elders and Rulers of them, affirms, That they are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Chosen to their Office by the Churches which they do Rule.
THE Testimony given by Cyprian in sundry places unto this Right of the People, especially in Epist. 68. unto the Elders and People of some Churches in Spain, is so known, so frequently urged and excepted against to so little purpose, as that it is no way needful to insist again upon it. Some few things I shall only observe concerning, and out of that Epistle: As,
1. IT was not a single Epistle of his own more ordinary occasions, but a determination upon a weighty Question made by a Synod of Bishops or Elders, in whose Name, as well as that of Cyprian, it was written and sent unto the Churches who had craved their advice.