A53732:509
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.
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.
THAT this is the sense of the word, that it is thus to be interpreted, must be proved from the Authority of Ancient Translations, or the use of it in other places of the New Testament, or from its precise Signification and Application in other Authors learned in this Language; or that it is enforced from the Context, or Matter treated of.
THAT this is the sence of the word, that it is thus to be interpreted, must be proved from the Authority of Ancient Translations, or the use of it in other places of the New Testament, or from its precise Signification and Application in other Authors learned in this Language; or that it is inforced from the Context, or Matter treated of.
BUT none of these can be pretended.