US CHURCH UNITY 



was — r .v: t .- c : liss e ns i ml He wanted peace. 



be wrote i fchei as a statesman than a 



theologian. It was peace at the expense 



: truth ; it was pc ..: the expense of 



the fullest liberty of private judgment. 

 1 ri tins did not himself go so far as to 

 m ke the last sacrifice of his own con- 

 scienc by a opting the infallibility of the 

 R m d I irch. Whether he have 



ne a had he lived, it is useless to in- 



. HissShemew - i vision, an halluci- 



d ti n. The hisl ry f Roman Catholicism 



: : the last three hundred yeais has pi ven 



th :. 



John Owen, the gi test : the Puritan 

 divines, the Xestor of the Congregational- 

 ists, in his n s hism, lays down 



a liberal platform. He holds that the true 



I note of the Church of C 

 is union with Christ, " nd wherever there 

 : man, or a body of men, who are unite 1 

 to Him I v living faith, and are keeping 

 : mmandments. he or they are in com- 

 munion with the Church ^ V "He 

 belon: t the I hui h itfa lie," runs his 

 noble charter, u who is unite d to Christ 

 by the spirit, and none other." 2 He vin- 

 : W . .- E B -- .'.I. xix. 253. 



