Owen - BX5085 O84x 1681

( 7) Eaíiings, Eecletiaftical Government, Liturgies, and the like, unto which all Believers ought to conform, on the Penalty ofbeing etteemed Schifmaticks, and dealt with- al accordingly. For this only is that wherein we are concerned. (2.) That becaufe the Apoftles made fuch a Rule, (which we know not what it is, or what is become of it) that the Guides of the Church (and that in fuch a Church ftate as the Apofdes knew nothing of) hávve Tower to frame fuch a Rile as that defcribed, and to impofe the Obfervation of it on all Believers, on the Penalties before mentioned. It is inanifeft that no Advantage unto the Caufe of Impofition and Uniformity as it_is .fcated at .prefent can be taken from thefe Words of the. Apoftle, unleß thefe two things be contained in them. But that either of them are fo, our Author doth not fay, nor go about to prove, in his large Dikourfe on this Place. I might therefore forbear any farther Examinationofit, without the leaf}difadvantageunto our Caufe. But that I may notTeem to wave the confideration of any thing that is pretended Material, I (hall enquire into the Particulars of it. He proceeds therefore toanfwer his own 2æries,which he judged conducing untohisPurpofe. The firft of them is,whether the fpof lefpeal¿es ofcVerentPrinciples orofdif- ferent'raefifs.And I find nothing in the Difcourfe enfu- ing, that hath theleafs refpeet unto this Enquiry, until to- wards the clofe ofit, where he grants that different Ap_ prehenrons are intended, fuch as were accompaniedwith dif ferent`Praefif fis; But in Order hereunto he gives us a K k large

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