THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN OWEN, D.D.

3:37

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,

Wangh and Innes, and H. S. Baynes and Co. Edinburgh ; Chalmers and
Collins, and M. Ogle, Glasgow; M. Keene, and R. M. Tims, Dublin.

CONTENTS

TO

THE TWENTIETH VOLUME.

Page

AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINAL, NATURE, INSTITUTION, POWER,

ORDER, AND COMMUNION OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES.

To the Reader

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PREFACE.

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

reasonableness of Separation

11

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

95

CHAP. IV.

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

........ 111

CHAP.. V

The state of the first churches after the apostles, to the end of the second

century

132

CHAP. VI.

Congregational churches alone suited unto the ends of Christ in the institution

of his church

..... 162