A90276:211
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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1. We deny their Church, as it is styled,1 to be the Catholic Church, or as such, any part of it, as particular Churches are called or esteemed. So that of all men in the World, they are least concerned in this Assertion. Nay I shall go farther; Suppose all the members of the Roman Church to be found in the Faith, as to all necessary: Truths, and no way to prejudice the Advantages and privileges, which acc••e to them by the profession thereof, whereby the several individuals ⟨p. 154⟩of it, would be true members of the Catholic Church, yet I should not only deny it to be the Catholic Church, but also abiding in its present Order and Constitution, being that which by themselves it is supposed to be, to be any particular Church of Christ at all; as wanting many things necessary to constitute them so, and having many things destructive utterly to the very Essence and being of that Order, that Christ hath appointed in his Churches.
1. We deny their Church, as it is stiled,1 to be the Catholick Church, or as such, any part of it, as particular Churches are called or esteemed. So that of all men in the World, they are least concerned in this Assertion. Nay I shall goe farther; Suppose all the members of the Roman Church to be found in the Faith, as to all necessary: Truths, and no way to prejudice the Advantages and priviledges, which acc••e to them by the profession thereof, whereby the severall individualls ⟨p. 154⟩of it, would be true members of the Catholick Church, yet I should not only deny it to be the Catholick Church, but also abideing in its present Order and Constitution, being that which by themselves it is supposed to be, to be any particular Church of Christ at all; as wanting many things necessary to constitute them so, and having many things destructive utterly to the very Essence and being of that Order, that Christ hath appointed in his Churches.
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