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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.
HEREIN consists the Union of every Church in it self, of all Churches among themselves, and so of the whole Catholic Church; their Communion consisting in regular Acts and Duties, proceeding from this Love, and required by virtue of it.
HEREIN consists the Union of every Church in it self, of all Churches among themselves, and so of the whole Catholick Church; their Communion consisting in regular Acts and Duties, proceeding from this Love, and required by virtue of it.
THIS account of the Union and Communion of Churches may seem strange unto some, who are enamoured on that Image which is set up of them in the World, in Canons, Constitutions of Rites, and outward Order in various Subordinations and Ceremonies, which are most remote from making any due Representation of them.
THIS account of the Vnion and Communion of Churches may seem strange unto some, who are enamoured on that Image which is set up of them in the World, in Canons, Constitutions of Rites, and outward Order in various Subordinations and Ceremonies, which are most remote from making any due Representation of them.
THE Church, in its dependence on Christ its Head, being by his Institution disposed unto its proper Order for its own Edification, or fitly joined together and compacted, this Love working effectually in every Office, Officer and Member, according as unto its disposal in the Body, for the receiving and communicating Supplies for Edification, gives the whole both its Union and Communion, all the actings of it being regulated by Divine Rule and Prescription.
THE Church, in its dependance on Christ its Head, being by his Institution disposed unto its proper Order for its own Edification, or fitly joined together and compacted, this Love working effectually in every Office, Officer and Member, according as unto its disposal in the Body, for the receiving and communicating Supplies for Edification, gives the whole both its Vnion and Communion, all the actings of it being regulated by Divine Rule and Prescription.