A90287:144
A review of the true nature of schism, with a vindication of the Congregational…A review of the true nature of schisme, with a vindication of the Congregationall…
A review of the true nature of schism, with a vindication of the Congregational churches in England, from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr D. Cawdrey, preacher of the Word at Billing in Northampton-shire. / By John Owen D.D.A review of the true nature of schisme, with a vindication of the Congregationall churches in England, from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr D. Cawdrey, preacher of the Word at Billing in Northampton-shire. / By John Owen D.D.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall printer to the University for Thomas Robinson, 1657
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Those who in the judgment of charity were and continue, members of the church catholic invisible by virtue of their union with Christ the head thereof; and members of the general visible church, by their due profession of the savings truths of the gospel, and subjection to Christ Jesus their King and Saviour according to them, do walk in love and concord in the particular churches, whereof by their own consent and choice they are members, not judging and condemning other particular churches of Christ, where they are not members as they are such, as to their station and privileges, being ready for all instituted communion with them, as revealed are not according to any gospel rule, nor by any principles acknowledged amongst Christians, to be judged or condemned as guilty of Schism; but such are all they for whom, ⟨p. 161⟩under any consideration what ever, I have pleaded as to their immunity from this charge, in my treatise of Schism; therefore they are not to be judged so guilty. If you please, you may adde, Quod er at demonstratum.
Those who in the judgment of charity were and continue, members of the church catholick invisible by vertue of their union with Christ the head thereof; and members of the generall visible church, by their due profession of the savings truths of the gospell, and subjection to Christ Jesus their King and Saviour according to them, do walke in love and concord in the particular churches, whereof by their own consent and choice they are members, not judging and condemning other particular churches of Christ, where they are not members as they are such, as to their stationand priviledges, being ready for all instituted communion with thē, as revealed are not according to any gospell rule, nor by any principles acknowledged amongst Christians, to be judged or condemned as guilty of Schisme; but such are all they for whom, ⟨p. 161⟩under any consideration what ever, I have pleaded as to their immunity from this charge, in my treatise of Schisme; therefore they are not to be judged so guilty. If you please, you may adde, Quod er at demonstratum.