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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.
THERE may be failures in them or some of them, as unto sundry of these things; there may be differences among them about them, arising from the Infirmities, Ignorance and Prejudices of them of whom they do consist, the best knowing here but in part; but whilst the substance of them is preserved, ⟨p. 244⟩the Union of all Churches, and so of the Catholic Church is preserved.
THERE may be failures in them or some of them, as unto sundry of these things; there may be differences among them about them, arising from the Infirmities, Ignorance and Prejudices of them of whom they do consist, the best knowing here but in part; but whilst the substance of them is preserved, ⟨p. 244⟩the Union of all Churches, and so of the Catholick Church is preserved.
THIS is that blessed oneness which the Lord Christ prayed for so earnestly for his Disciples, that they might be one in the Father and the Son, one among themselves, and made perfect in one, Joh. 17.20, 21, 22, 23. without any respect unto that horrid Image of it, which was set up in the latter days of the Church, which all Men were compelled to bow down unto, and Worship, with the fire of Nebuchadnezzars Furnace. Of any other Union there is not the least mention in the Scripture.
THIS is that blessed oneness which the Lord Christ prayed for so earnestly for his Disciples, that they might be one in the Father and the Son, one among themselves, and made perfect in one, Joh. 17.20, 21, 22, 23. without any respect unto that horrid Image of it, which was set up in the latter days of the Church, which all Men were compelled to bow down unto, and Worship, with the fire of Nebuchadnezzars Furnance. Of any other Union there is not the least mention in the Scripture.