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.
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- Owen, John, 1616-1683.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by J. Richardson, for Nath. Ponder ..., and Sam. Lee ...,
- 1681.
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- Subject terms
- Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. -- Discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a new separation.
- Church history -- 17th century.
- Schism.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53704.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025.
Contents
- title page
- TO THE READER.
- The Preface.
- CHAP. I. Of the Original of Churches.
- CHAP. II. The Especial Original of the Evangelical Church-State.
- CHAP. III. The Continuation of a Church-State and of Churches unto the end of the world; what are the Causes of it, and where∣on it depends.
- CHAP. IV. The Especial Nature of the Gospel Church-State appointed by Christ.
- CHAP. V. The Sate of the First Churches after the Apostles to the end of the Second Century.
- CHAP. VI. Congregational Churches alone suited unto the ends of Christ in the Institution of his Church.
- CHAP. VII. No other Church-state of Divine Institution.
- CHAP. VIII. The Duty of Believers to joyn themselves in Church-Order.
- CHAP. IX. The Continuation of a Church-state, and of the Ad∣ministration of Evangelical Ordinances of Wor∣ship, briefly vindicated.
- CHAP. X. What sort of Churches the Disciples of Christ, may▪ and ought to joyn themselves unto as unto Entire Communion.
- CHAP. XI. Of Conformity and Communion in Parochial Assemblies.
- CHAP. XI. Of Schisme
- polemic