A90276:164
Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…
Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.
Oxford: printed by L.L. for T. Robinson, 1657
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Supposing this Assertion to the purpose in hand (which it is not at all) it would prove only a combination of all the Officers of several Churches,1 consisting in the subordination and dependence mentioned, not of the whole Church it self, though all the members of it should be at once imagined or fancied (as what shall hinder men from fancying what they please) to be comprised within the limits of those distributions, unless it be also proved, that Christ hath instituted several sorts of particular Churches Parochial, Diocesan, Metropolitical Patriarchal (I use the words in the present vulgar acceptation, their signification having bin somewhat otherwise formerly; paroecia being the care of a private Bishop, Provincia of a Metropolitan, & Diocesis of a Patriarch) in the order mentioned, and hath pointed out which of his Churches shall be of ⟨p. 123⟩those several kinds throughout the world; which that it will not be done to the disturbance of my principles, whilst I live I have some present good security.
Supposing this Assertion to the purpose in hand (which it is not at all) it would prove only a combination of all the Officers of severall Churches,1 consisting in the subordination and dependance mentioned, not of the whole Church it selfe, though all the members of it should be at once imagined or fancied (as what shall hinder men from fancying what they please) to be comprised within the limits of those distributions, unles it be also proved, that Christ hath instituted severall sorts of particular Churches Parochiall, Diocesan, Metropoliticall Patriarchall (I use the words in the present vulgar acceptation, their signification having bin somewhat otherwise formerly; paroecia being the care of a private Bishop, Provincia of a Metropolitan, & Diocesis of a Patriarch) in the order mentioned, and hath pointed out which of his Churches shall be of ⟨p. 123⟩those severall kinds throughout the world; which that it will not be done to the disturbance of my principles, whilst I live I have some present good security.
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