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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.
SUNDRY things are excepted unto this Testimony and our Application of it. Those which are of any weight consist in a contest about Two Words in the Text, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]; some place their confidence of Evasion in one of them, and some in another; the Argument from both being inconsistent. If that sense of one of these Words which is pleaded as a Relief against ⟨p. 147⟩this Testimony be embraced, that which unto the same purpose is pretended to be the sense of the other, must be rejected. Such shifts doth an opposition unto the Truth, put Men to.
SUNDRY things are excepted unto this Testimony and our Application of it. Those which are of any weight consist in a contest about Two Words in the Text, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; some place their confidence of Evasion in one of them, and some in another; the Argument from both being inconsistent. If that sence of one of these Words which is pleaded as a Relief against ⟨p. 147⟩this Testimony be embraced, that which unto the same purpose is pretended to be the sence of the other, must be rejected. Such shifts doth an opposition unto the Truth, put Men to.
1. SOME say that [Greek or Hebrew], especially, is not Distinctive, but Descriptive only; that is, it doth not distinguish one sort of Elders from another; but only describes that single sort of them by an adjunct of their Office, whereof the Apostle speaks. The meaning of it, they say, is as much as, seeing that. The Elders that Rule well, are worthy of double Honour; seeing that they also labour; or especially considering that they Labour, &c.
1. SOME say that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, especially, is not Distinctive, but Descriptive only; that is, it doth not distinguish one sort of Elders from another; but only describes that single sort of them by an adjunct of their Office, whereof the Apostle speaks. The meaning of it, they say, is as much as, seeing that. The Elders that Rule well, are worthy of double Honour; seeing that they also labour; or especially considering that they Labour, &c.