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    The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished
    The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished
    The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished
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    The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished

    By John Owen

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    Owen here declares himself to be in sentiment a Presbyterian, in opposition to Prelacy and Independency. He afterwards changed his views on church-government; but in the work on schism, to which we have just referred, he declares that, on the subjects under discussion in this treatise, his principles had undergone no essential change: “When I compare what I then wrote with my present judgment, I am scarce able to find the least difference between the one and the other.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531275266
    The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished
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    John Owen

    John Owen (1616–1683) was vice-chancellor of Oxford University and served as advisor and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Among the most learned and active of the Puritans in seventeenth-century England, he was accomplished both in doctrine and practical theology.

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      The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished - John Owen

      THE DUTY OF PASTORS AND PEOPLE DISTINGUISHED

      ..................

      John Owen

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      Copyright © 2016 by John Owen

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Prefatory note.

      To the truly noble and my ever honoured friend, Sir Edward Scot, of Scot’s Hall in Kent, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath.

      Preface.

      THE DUTY OF PASTORS AND PEOPLE DISTINGUISHED.

      Chapter I.

      Chapter II.

      Chapter III.

      Chapter IV.

      Chapter V.

      Chapter VI.

      Chapter VII.

      Chapter VIII.

      Indexes

      Index of Scripture References

      Index of Citations

      Index of Names

      Index of Greek Words and Phrases

      Index of Latin Words and Phrases

      THE

      DUTY OF PASTORS AND PEOPLE DISTINGUISHED:

      OR,

      A BRIEF DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THINGS COMMANDED IN RELIGION;

      ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE MEANS TO BE USED BY THE PEOPLE OF GOD (DISTINCT FROM CHURCH OFFICERS) FOR THE INCREASING OF DIVINE KNOWLEDGE IN THEMSELVES AND OTHERS:

      WHEREIN BOUNDS ARE PRESCRIBED TO THEIR PERFORMANCES; THEIR LIBERTY IS ENLARGED TO THE UTMOST EXTENT OF THE DICTATES OF NATURE AND RULES OF CHARITY; THEIR DUTY LAID DOWN IN DIRECTIONS DRAWN FROM SCRIPTURE PRECEPTS AND THE PRACTICE OF GOD’S PEOPLE IN ALL AGES.

      TOGETHER WITH

      THE SEVERAL WAYS OF EXTRAORDINARY CALLING TO THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC TEACHING,

      WITH WHAT ASSURANCE SUCH TEACHERS MAY HAVE OF THEIR CALLING, AND WHAT EVIDENCE THEY CAN GIVE OF IT UNTO OTHERS.

      By John Owen, M.A., of Q. Col. O.

      PREFATORY NOTE.

      ..................

      THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FOLLOWING treatise indicates that it was published in the year 1644; but in the second chapter of The Review of the True Nature of Schism, in this volume, it is stated that the date is a misprint for 1643. The work is dedicated to Sir Edward Scot, in whose family, it would appear, the author had for some time resided, and who had offered him some ecclesiastical preferment when it was vacant. Owen here declares himself to be in sentiment a Presbyterian, in opposition to Prelacy and Independency. He afterwards changed his views on church-government; but in the work on schism, to which we have just referred, he declares that, on the subjects under discussion in this treatise, his principles had undergone no essential change: When I compare what I then wrote with my present judgment, I am scarce able to find the least difference between the one and the other.

      Two chapters of the work are occupied with a statement of the provision made for conducting religious instruction and worship under the patriarchal and Mosaic dispensations. An interesting chapter follows on the spiritual priesthood of all believers, as destructive of the superstitions tenet which invests the office of the ministry with esoteric virtue and sanctity. The several ways under which men may be constrained, under an extraordinary call, to impart religious instruction publicly to others, are next considered. The treatise closes with an assertion of the right and obligation of private Christians to conduct certain kinds of divine worship, without interfering with the official functions of the Christian ministry.

      The tractate to which he alludes, "De Sacerdotio Christi, contra Armin. Socin. et Papistas, is described as not yet published, and seems never to have been published. It may have supplied part of the long and valuable exercitations on the priesthood of Christ prefixed to the Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, as, from the slight allusion to it in this treatise, the same topics appear to have been handled in it. He refers, also, in the close of this treatise, to an answer, drawn up for the satisfaction of some private friends, to the arguments of the Remonstrants for liberty of prophesying. Mr Orme supposes this unpublished document to be identical with the Tractatus de Christi Sacerdotio." We are not aware of any grounds for supposing such an identity. The subjects which these unpublished tracts seem to have discussed are obviously different. — Ed.

      I have perused this Discourse touching The Administration of Things Commanded in Religion, and conceive it written with much clearness of judgment and moderation of spirit; and therefore do approve of it to be published in print.

      Joseph Caryl

      May 11, 1644.

      TO THE TRULY NOBLE AND MY EVER HONOURED FRIEND, SIR EDWARD SCOT, OF SCOT’S HALL IN KENT, KNIGHT OF THE HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH.

      ..................

      Sir,

      Having of late been deprived of the happiness to see you, I make bold to send to visit you; and because that the times are troublesome, I have made choice of this messenger, who, having obtained a license to pass, fears no searching. He brings no news, at least to you, but that which was from the beginning, and must continue unto the end, which you have heard, and which (for some part thereof) you have practised out of the word of God. He hath no secret messages prejudicial to the state of church or commonwealth; neither, I hope, will he entertain any such comments by the way, considering from whom he comes and to whom he goes; of whom the one would disclaim him and the other punish him. Ambitious I am not of any entertainment for these few sheets, neither care much what success they find in their travel, setting them out merely in my own defence, to be freed from the continued solicitations of some honest, judicious men, who were acquainted with their contents, being nothing but an hour’s country discourse, resolved from the ordinary pulpit method into its own principles. When I first thought of sending it to you, I made full account to use the benefit of the advantage in recounting of and returning thanks for some of those many undeserved favours which I have received from you; but addressing myself to the performance, I fainted in the very entrance, finding their score so large that I know not where to begin, neither should I know how to end. Only one I cannot suffer to lie hid in the crowd, though other engagements hindered me from embracing it — namely, your free proffer of an ecclesiastical preferment, then vacant and in your donation. Yet, truly, all received courtesies have no power to oblige me unto you in comparison of that abundant worth which, by experience, I have found to be dwelling in you. Twice, by God’s providence, have I been with you when your county hath been in great danger to be ruined, — once by the horrid insurrection of a rude, godless multitude, and again by the invasion of a potent enemy prevailing in the neighbour county; at both which times, besides the general calamity justly feared, particular threatenings were daily brought unto you: under which sad dispensations, I must crave leave to say (only to put you in mind of yourself, if it should please God again to reduce you to the like straits), that I never saw

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