Download or read book The True Nature of a Gospel Church and Its Government (Classic Reprint) written by John Owen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The True Nature of a Gospel Church and Its Government Loins, God takes them to himfelf in one Vi/ihle Body, a Na tional hut Congregational Church, to which he forms them Four hundred and thirty Tears afier the Promzfe in the W ilderne and although all Abraham's Natural Po erity, according to the External part of the Promije made to him, were taken into 'zzi/ihle church-fellow/hip, [0 that it hecame a National Church; yet it was fuch a National Church al ways, in the Wildernefs, and in the Holy Land, as was Congregational for it was hut onehcongregation during the Tahernacle, or Temple- ate, fir/t or fecond; they were al ways hound to a emhle to the Tahernacle, or Temple, thrice at lea/t emery Tear hence the Tahernacle was zll called the Tabernacle ofthe Congregation. They were to have hut one Altar for burnt-o hrings and Sacrifices; what others were at any time elfewhere called high-places, were condemn ed hy God as Sin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."