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A53732 The true nature of a Gospel church and its government ... by the late pious and learned minister of the Gospel, John Owen ... Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1689 (1689) Wing O815; ESTC R13410 211,358 294

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as the best Treasure to be preserved and ensured by all that would be Happy here and hereafter By Bartholomew Ashwood late Minister of the Gospel Price bound 2s 6d Another Book of the same Authors Entituled The heavenly Trade or the best Merchandize the only way to live well in impoverishing Times A Discourse occasioned from the decay of Earthly Trades and visible waste of practical Piety in the Day we live in Offering Arguments and Counsels to all towards a speedy revival of dying Godliness and timely prevention of the dangerous issues thereof hanging over us Very necessary for all Families Price 2 s. 6 d. Some other Books Printed for and Sold by William Marshal CAryl's Exposition on the whole Book of Job In Two Volumes in Folio Pool's Synopsis Criticorum In V. Volumes Latin. 's Synopsis on the New Testament In Two large Volumes in Latin with the Index are to be sold very cheap In Quires both Volumes for 20 s and both Vol. well bound for 30 s. Pool's Annotations in English. Two Volumes Index's to the Old and New Testament to be sold alone Price 5 s. Dr. Owen on the Hebrews In Four Volumes Owen on the Spirit Clark's Martyrology Mellificium Chirurgiae or the Marrow of Chirurgery An Anatomical Treatise Institutions of Physick with Hippocrates's Aphorisms largely Commented upon The Marrow of Physick shewing the Causes Signs and Cures of most Diseases incident to humane Bodies Choice experienced Receipts for the Cure of several Distempers The Fourth Edition enlarged withm any Additions and purged from many Faults that escaped in the former Impressions Illustrated with Twelve Copper Cuts By James Cooke of Warwick Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery There is also a very useful Book of the same Authors for those That are desirous of being their own Physicians Entituled Select Observations of English Bodies of Eminent Persons in desperate Diseases To which is now added an Hundred rich Counsels and Advices for several honourable Persons With all the several Medicines and Methods by which the several Cures were effected With Directions about Drinking the Bath Water Price bound 2 s. 6 d. Clarkson's Primitive Episcopacy Octavo Price bound 1 s. 6 d. Owen of Justification 's Brief and Impartial Account of the Nature of the Protestant Religion THE TRUE NATURE OF A Gospel Church AND ITS GOVERNMENT CHAP. I. The Subject Matter of the Church THE Church may be considered either as unto its Essence Constitution and Being or as unto its Power and Order when it is Organized As unto its Essence and Being its constituent parts are its Matter and Form. These we must enquire into By the Matter of the Church we understand the persons whereof the Church doth consist with their Qualifications And by its Form the reason cause and way of that kind of Relation among them which gives them the Being of a Church and therewithal an Interest in all that belongs unto a Church either privilege or power as such Our first Enquiry being concerning what sort of Persons our Lord Jesus Christ requireth and admitteth to be the visible Subjects of his Kingdom we are to be regulated in our Determination by respect unto his Honour Glory and the Holiness of his Rule To reckon such persons to be Subjects of Christ Members of his Body such as he requires and owns for others are not so who would not be tolerated at least not approved in a well Governed Kingdom or Commonwealth of the World is highly dishonourable unto him But it is so come to pass that let Men be never so notoriously and flagitiously wicked until they become pests of the earth yet are they esteemed to belong to the Church of Christ. And not only so but it is thought little less than Schism to forbid them the Communion of the Church in all its sacred Privileges Howbeit the Scripture doth in general represent the Kingdom or Church of Christ to consist of persons called Saints separated from the World with many other things of an alike nature as we shall see immediately And if the Honour of Christ were of such weight with us as it ought to be if we understood aright the nature and ends of his Kingdom and that the peculiar Glory of it above all the Kingdoms in the World consists in the Holiness of its Subjects such an Holiness as the World in its wisdom knoweth not we would duly consider whom we avow to belong thereunto Those who know ought of these things will not profess that persons openly profane vicious sensual wicked and ignorant are approved and owned of Christ as the Subjects of his Kingdom or that it is his will that we should receive them into the Communion of the Church But an old opinion of the unlawfulness of separation from a Church on the account of the mixture of wicked men in it is made a scare-crow to frighten men from attempting the Reformation of the greatest Evils and a covert for the composing Churches of such Members only Some things therefore are to be premised unto what shall be offered unto the right stating of this Enquiry As 1. That if there be no more required of any as unto Personal Qualifications in a visible uncontroulable profession to constitute them Subjects of Christs Kingdom and Members of his Church but what is required by the most righteous and severe Laws of Men to constitute a good Subject or Citizen the distinction between his visible Kingdom and the Kingdoms of the World as unto the principal causes of it is utterly lost Now all negative Qualifications as that Men are not Oppressors Drunkards Revilers Swearers Adulterers c. are required hereunto But yet it is so fallen out that generally more is required to constitute such a Citizen as shall represent the righteous Laws he liveth under than to constitute a Member of the Church of Christ. 2. That whereas Regeneration is expresly required in the Gospel to give a Right and Privilege unto an entrance into the Church or Kingdom of Christ whereby that Kingdom of his is distinguished from all other Kingdoms in and of the World unto an Interest wherein never any such thing was required it must of necessity be something better more excellent and sublime than any thing the Laws and Polities of Men pretend unto or prescribe Wherefore it cannot consist in any outward Rites easie to be observed by the worst and vilest of Men besides the Scripture gives us a description of it in opposition unto its consisting in any such Rite 1 Pet. 3.21 And many things required unto good Citizens are far better than the meer observation of such a Rite Of this Regeneration Baptism is the Symbol the Sign Expression and Representation Wherefore unto those who are in a due manner partakers of it it giveth all the external Rights and Privileges which belong unto them that are Regenerate until they come unto such Seasons wherein the personal performance of those Duties whereon the continuation of