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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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This then is added by the same Author, 1That the Ecclesiastical estate was then conformed to the Civill: where ever there was a Metropolis in a Civill-political sense, there was seated also a Metropolitical Church; now that Corinth was a Metropolis, the Proconsul of Achaia Keeping his residence there, in the first sense is confessed. And besides what follows from thence, by virtue of the principle now laid down, Chrysostom calls it a Metropolis relating to the time wherein Paul wrote his Epistle to the Church there in the latter sense also.
This then is added by the same Author, 1That the Ecclesiasticall estate was then conformed to the Civill: where ever there was a Metropolis in a Civill-politicall sence, there was seated also a Metropoliticall Church; now that Corinth was a Metropolis, the Proconsul of Achaia Keeping his residence there, in the first sence is confessed. And besides what followes from thence, by vertue of the principle now laid down, Chrysostome calls it a Metropolis relating to the time wherein Paul wrote his Epistle to the Church there in the latter sence also.
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The plea about Metropolitical Churches, 1I suppose will be thought very impertinent to what I have now in hand, so it shall not at present be insisted on. That the state of Churches in after Ages was moulded and framed after the pattern of the civill Government of the Roman Empire is granted; And that conformity (without offence to any be it spoken) we take to be a fruit of the working of the mystery of Iniquity. But that there was any such order instituted in the Churches of Christ, by the Apostles, or any ⟨p. 42⟩