An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches.…

An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches. The first part with an answer to the discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of Pauls, and in defence of the vindication of non-conformists from the guilt of schism / by John Owen.An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches. The first part with an answer to the discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of Pauls, and in defence of the vindication of non-conformists from the guilt of schisme / by John Owen.

John Owen 1616–1683

London: printed by J. Richardson for Nath. Ponder, 1681

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John Owen, An enquiry into the original, nature, institution, power, order and communion of evangelical churches.… (London, 1681). EEBO-TCP A53704.

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Title page6
To the readerTO THE READER.9
PrefaceThe Preface.pp. 1–72129
Chapter 1Of the Original of Churches.pp. 1–1225
Chapter 2The Especial Original of the Evangelical Church-State.pp. 13–3744
Chapter 3The Continuation of a Church-State and of Churches unto the end of the world; what are the Causes of it, and whereon it depends.pp. 38–5836
Chapter 4The Especial Nature of the Gospel Church-State appointed by Christ.pp. 58–8149
Chapter 5The Sate of the First Churches after the Apostles to the end of the Second Century.pp. 82–11967
Chapter 6Congregational Churches alone suited unto the ends of Christ in the Institution of his Church.pp. 119–136

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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