A90276:304
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
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.
1. There is a double foundation, 1fountain, or cause of the Union of such a Church; the one external, procuring, commanding; the other internal, inciting, directing, assisting. The first is the Institution of Jesus Christ, before mentioned, requiring Peace, and Order, Union, Consent, and Agreement, in and among all the members of such a Church; all to be regulated, ordered, and bounded, by the Rules, Laws, Prescripts, which from him they have received, for their walking in those Societies.
1. There is a double foundation, 1fountain, or cause of the Ʋnion of such a Church; the one externall, procuring, commanding; the other internall, inciting, directing, assisting. The first is the Institution of Jesus Christ, before mentioned, requiring Peace, and Order, Ʋnion, Consent, and Agreement, in and among all the members of such a Church; all to be regulated, ordered, and bounded, by the Rules, Laws, Prescripts, which from him they have received, for their walking in those Societies.
- 1§. 20.
The Latter is that Love without dissimulation, which always is, or which always ought to be, between all the members of such a Church, exerting it self in their respective duties one towards another, in that holy combination, whereunto they are called and entered for the Worship of God: whether they are those, which lye in the level of the equality of their common interest of being Church-members, or those which are required of them in the several differences, whereby on any account whatever, they are distinguished one from another ⟨p. 215⟩amongst themselves; for love is the bond of perfectness. Col. 3. 14