A90276:183
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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Let us suppose a man by bare Reading of the Scriptures,1 brought to him by some providence of God (as finding the Bible in the high way) and evidencing their Authority by their own light, instructed in the knowledge of the Truths of the Gospel, who shall thereupon make profession of them amongst them, with whom he lives, although he be thousands of miles distant from any particular Church, wherein the ⟨p. 138⟩Ordinances of Christ are administered; nor perhaps knows there is any such Church in the world, much less hath ever heard of the Pope of Rome (which is utterly impossible he should, supposing him instructed only by reading of the Scriptures) I ask whether this man, making open profession of Christ according to the Gospel, shall be esteemed a member of the visible Church in the sense insisted on or no?
Let us suppose a man by bare Reading of the Scriptures,1 brought to him by some providence of God (as finding the Bible in the high way) and eviden•ing their Authority by their own light, instructed in the knowledge of the Truths of the Gospell, who shall thereupon make profession of them amongst them, with whō he lives, although he be thousands of miles distant from any particular Church, wherein the ⟨p. 138⟩Ordinances of Christ are administred; nor perhaps knows there is any such Church in the world, much lesse hath ever heard of the Pope of Rome (which is utterly impossible he should, supposing him instructed only by reading of the Scriptures) I aske whether this man, making open profession of Christ according to the Gospell, shall be esteemed a member of the visible Church in the sence insisted on or no?
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