Items related to The Church Covenant Idea; Its Origin and Its Development
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V THE GENERAL ACCEPTANCE OF BROWNE'S CHURCH COVENANT IDEA BY THE EARLY INDEPENDENT LEADERS ROBERT BROWNE'S church covenant idea seems generally, if not always, to have been accepted by the earliest Independent churches. In fact, without some such basal idea it would have been almost impossible to form a strictly Separatist church. Yet the word "covenant" does not appear to have beenjjsed by all the earliest Independent leaders, /For the word "covenant" such expressions as "articles" to be signed, "a promise," "an agreement," etc., were sometimes substituted. Oftentimes also the covenant idea seems to be implied by the use of such phraseology as "joyned by their willing consent."/ The degree in which the earliest Independent leaders accepted the church covenant idea may be estimated somewhat from the following quotations. Barrowe and Greenwood, who were working for a Congregational polity between Brownism and Presbyterianism, in a paper sent to Cartwright about 1589, define the true church as A companie of Faithful people: separated from the vnbeleuers and heathen of the land: gathered in the name of Christ, whome they truelie worship, and redily obey as thier only King Priest and Prophet notice that these last words occur often in the text of later covenants, especially in America: ioyned together as members of one bodie." In this quotation the word "covenant" is not used, and in Barrowe's chief treatise, entitled a "Brief Discouerie of the False Church," of the date 1590, the word "covenant" is evidently not employed.2 The following citation3 from the Confession of Faith of the exiled English church in Amsterdam, originally drawn up in 1596, clearly indicates that the covenant idea was employed by the Separatists in Amsterdam: And being come for...
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