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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 them, or any for them, in the mean time evince the Jurisdiction they exercised, in respect whereunto our subjection in the first kind was required, to derive its original from the pure Institution of Christ in the Gospel, or to be any such thing as it was, in an imagined separation from the humane Laws, whereby it was animated; and more will be asserted, then I have had the happiness as yet to see. Now I say, that the subjection to them due, on this account, we did not cast off; but their whole Authority, Power, and Jurisdiction was removed, taken away, and annulled, by the people of the Land assembled in Parliament.
Let them, or any for them, in the mean time evince the Jurisdiction they exercised, in respect whereunto our subjection in the first kind was required, to derive its originall from the pure Institution of Christ in the Gospell, or to be any such thing as it was, in an imagined separation from the humane Laws, whereby it was animated; and more will be asserted, then I have had the happinesse as yet to see. Now I say, that the subjection to them due, on this account, we did not cast off; but their whole Authority, Power, and Jurisdiction was removed, taken away, and anull'd, by the people of the Land assembled in Parliament.
But this,1 they reply, is the state of the business in hand; the Parliament, as much as in them lay, did so indeed as is confessed, and by so doing made the Schism, which you by adhering to them, and joining with them in their several places, have made your selves also guilty of.
But this,1 they reply, is the state of the businesse in hand; the Parliament, as much as in them lay, did so indeed as is confessed, and by so doing made the Schisme, which you by adhering to them, and joyning with them in their severall places, have made your selves also guilty of.
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