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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.
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.
NEC sibi plebs blandiatur, quasi immunis esse a contagio delicti possit cum sacerdote peccatore communicans, & ad injustum & illicitum Praepositi sui Episcopatum consensum suum commodans. Propter quod plebs obsequens praeceptis Dominicis & Deum metuens, a peccatore praeposito separare se debet; nec se ad Sacrilegi Sacerdotis Sacrificia miscere; quando ipsa maxime habeat potestatem vel eligendi dignos sacerdotes, vel indignos recusandi; quod & ipsum videmus de Divina Authoritate descendere.