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A Guide to Church-Fellowship and Order

by John Owen

A posthumous ecclesiological treatise by the great Congregationalist theologian, arguing that voluntary church membership is an indispensable Christian duty. Owen examines who may rightly constitute a visible church, what qualifications fit a person for genuine communion, and why gospel ordinances remain perpetually binding. He then guides readers in evaluating which churches a conscientious Christian may lawfully join — insisting that truth, worship, ministry, and discipline are the non-negotiable marks of a congregation worthy of full communion.
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4
Word count
15,543
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Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 Chapter 1: The Necessity of Joining Church-Order 3,729 words
  2. 02 Chapter 2: The Subject Matter of the Church 3,312 words
  3. 03 Chapter 3: The Continuation of a Church-State 3,576 words
  4. 04 Chapter 4: What Churches Christians May Rightly Join 4,679 words
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Title Page

A GUIDE TO Church-Fellowship and Order. According to the Gospel-Institution: WHEREIN These following Particulars are distinctly handled:

- I. The Necessity of Believers to joyn themselves in Church-Order, - II. The Subject Matter of the Church. - III. The Continuation of a Church-state, and of the Administration of Evangelical Ordinances of Worship, briefly vindicated. - IV. What sort of Churches the Disciples of Christ may, and ought to joyn themselves to, as to Entire Communion.

By the Late Pious and Learned Minister of the Gospel, John Owen, Doctor D.

*John 5:39.* Search the Scriptures, &c.

London, Printed for William Marshall, at the Bible in Newgate-street, 1692.

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