The true nature of a Gospel church and its government ... / by the late pious and learned minister of the Gospel, John Owen ..

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Owen, John, 1616-1683.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 157:2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church polity.

Congregational churches--Discipline.

Congregational churches.

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 268 pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for William Marshall ..., 1689.

Contents:

from t.p.) I. The subject matter of the church

II. The formal cause of a particular church

III. Of the policy, rule or discipline of the church in general

IV. The officers of the church

V. The duty of pastors of churches

VI. The office of teachers in the church

VII. Of the rule of the church, or of ruling elders

VIII. The nature of church polity or rule, with the duty of elders

IX. Of deacons

X. Of excommunication

XI. Of the communion of churches.

Notes:

"The preface to the reader" signed: J.C. [i.e. Isaac Chauncey?].

Errata: p. 268.

Advertisements: p. [19]-[20].

Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1964. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 157:2)

Cited in:

Wing O815

Arber's Term cat. II 269

OCLC:

12254905