THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN OWEN, D.D.

3007

EDITED

BY THOMAS RUSSELL, M. A.

WITH

MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,
BY WILLIAM ORME.

VOL. XX.

CONTAINING

AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINAL, NATURE, INSTITUTION,
POWER, ORDER, AND COMMUNION OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES;
AN ANSWER TO DR. STILLINGFLEET'S BOOK OF THE

UNREASONABLENESS OF SEPARATION; AND

THE TRUE NATURE OF A GOSPEL CHURCH AND ITS GOVERNMENT.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD BAYNES, 28, PATERNOSTER ROW:
And sold by J. Parker, Oxford; Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; D. Brown,
Waugh and Innes, and H. S. Baynes and Co. Edinburgh; Chalmers and
Collins, and M. Ogle, Glasgow; M. Keene, and R. M. Tims, Dublin.

CONTENTS

ΤΟ

THE TWENTIETH VOLUME.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINAL, NATURE, INSTITUTION, POWER,
ORDER, AND COMMUNION OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES.

To the Reader

PREFACE.

Page

iii

An examination of the general principles of Dr. Stillingfleet's book of the Un-

reasonableness of Separation

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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 whereon it depends

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The especial nature of the gospel church-state appointed by Christ

The state 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