A53732:290
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.
2. HE doth not only assert the Right of the people to choose worthy persons to be their Bishops, and reject those that are unworthy; but also industriously proves it so to be their Right by Divine Institution and Appointment.
3. HE declares it to be the Sin of the People, if they neglect the use and exercise of their Right and Power in rejecting and ⟨p. 80⟩withdrawing themselves from the Communion of Unworthy Pastors, and choosing others in their room.
3. HE declares it to be the Sin of the People, if they neglect the use and exercise of their Right and Power in rejecting and ⟨p. 80⟩withdrawing themselves from the Communion of Vnworthy Pastors, and choosing others in their room.
4. HE affirms that this was the Practice, not only of the Churches of Afric, but of those in most of the other Provinces of the Empire. Some passages in his Discourse, wherein all these things are asserted, I shall transcribe in the Order wherein they lie in the Epistle.
4. HE affirms that this was the Practice, not only of the Churches of Africk, but of those in most of the other Provinces of the Empire. Some passages in his Discourse, wherein all these things are asserted, I shall transcribe in the Order wherein they lie in the Epistle.