A90287:97
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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CHAP. 7.
Our progress in the next place is to the consideration of the Catholic Church visible. Who are the members of this church, whereof it is constituted, what is required to make them so, on what account men visibly professing the gospel may be esteemed justly devested of the privilege of being members of this church, with sundry respects of the church in that sense, are in my treatise discussed. The union of this church that is proper and peculiar unto it as such, I declared to be the profession of the saving doctrine of the gospel, not everted by any of the miscarriages, errors, or oppositions to it, that are there recounted. The breach of this union I manifest to consist in apostasy, from the profession of the faith, and so to be no Schism, upon whomsoever the guilt of it doth fall; pleading the immunity of the Protestants as such from the guilt of the breach of this union, ⟨p. 102⟩and charging it upon the Romanists, in all the ways whereby it may be broken, an issue is put to that discourse.
OUr progresse in the next place is to the consideration of the Catholick Church visible. Who are the members of this church, whereof it is constituted, what is required to make them so, on what account men visibly professing the gospell may be esteemed justly devested of the priviledge of being members of this church, with sundry respects of the church in that sense, are in my treatise discussed. The union of this church that is proper and peculiar unto it as such, I declared to be the profession of the saving doctrine of the gospell, not everted by any of the miscarriages, errors, or oppositions to it, that are there recounted. The breach of this union I manifest to consist in apostasy, from the profession of the faith, and so to be no Schisme, upon whomsoever the guilt of it doth fall; pleading the immunity of the Protestants as such from the guilt of the breach of this union, ⟨p. 102⟩and charging it upon the Romanists, in all the waies whereby it may be broken, an issue is put to that discourse.