A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God
John Owen
Public DomainPrayer
Chapters 42
- Question 1 — What doth God require of us in our dependence on him, that he may be glorified by us, and we accepted with ≈ 5 min
- Question 2 — By what means do we come to know that God will thus be worshipped? ≈ 4 min
- Question 3 — How, then, are these ways and means of the worship of God made known unto us? ≈ 5 min
- Question 4 — Have these ways and means been always the same from the beginning? ≈ 6 min
- Question 5 — Is there any farther alteration to be expected in or of those institutions and ordinances of worship which ≈ 5 min
- Question 6 — May not such an estate of faith and perfection in obedience be attained in this life, as wherein believers ≈ 5 min
- Question 7 — What are the chief things that we ought to aim at in our observation of the institutions of Christ in the g ≈ 4 min
- Question 8 — How may we sanctify the name of God in the use of gospel institutions? ≈ 15 min
- Question 10 — How do we in and by them build up ourselves in our most holy faith? ≈ 5 min
- Question 11 — How are mutual love and communion among believers testified and confirmed in their observation? ≈ 5 min
- Question 12 — What is principally to be attended unto by us in the manner of the celebration of the worship of God, and ≈ 11 min
- Question 13 — Are not some institutions of the New Testament ceased as to any obligation unto their observation, and the ≈ 4 min
- Question 14 — May not the church find out, and appoint to be observed, such religious rites as, being adjoined unto the ≈ 16 min
- Question 15 — Whence may it appear that the right and due observation of instituted worship is of great importance unto ≈ 21 min
- Question 16 — Is there yet any consideration that may stir up believers to a holy and religious care about the due obser ≈ 5 min
- Question 17 — Which are the principal institutions of the gospel to be observed in the worship of God? ≈ 4 min
- Question 18 — Whereas sundry of these things are founded in the light and law of nature, as requisite unto all solemn wo ≈ 4 min
- Question 19 — What is an instituted church of the gospel? ≈ 27 min
- Question 20 — By what means do persons so called become a church of Christ? ≈ 16 min
- Question 21 — Seeing the church is a society or spiritual incorporation of persons under rule, government, or discipline ≈ 4 min
- Question 23 — Who are the ordinary officers or ministers of Christ in the church, to be always continued therein? ≈ 5 min
- Question 24 — What are the principal differences between these two sorts of officers or rulers in the church, extraordin ≈ 5 min
- Question 25 — What is required unto the due constitution of an elder, pastor, or teacher of the church? ≈ 15 min
- Question 26 — May a person be called to, or be employed in, a part only of the office or work of the ministry; or may he ≈ 5 min
- Question 27 — What are the principal duties of the pastors or teachers of the church? ≈ 5 min
- Question 28 — Wherein principally doth the authority of the elders of the church consist? ≈ 8 min
- Question 29 — What is the duty of the church towards their elders, pastors, or teachers? ≈ 5 min
- Question 30 — Are there any differences in the office or offices of the guides, rulers, elders, or ministers of the chur ≈ 4 min
- Question 31 — Are there appointed any elders in the church whose office and duty consist in rule and government only? ≈ 10 min
- Question 32 — Is there no other ordinary office in the church but only that of elders? ≈ 9 min
- Question 34 — Wherein consists the general duty of the whole church, and every member thereof, in their proper station a ≈ 10 min
- Question 35 — Whence do you reckon prayer, which is a part of moral and natural worship, among the institutions of Chris ≈ 3 min
- Question 37 — Is the constant work of preaching the gospel by the elders of the church necessary? ≈ 8 min
- Question 42 — Unto whom is the power and administration of this discipline committed by Jesus Christ? ≈ 5 min
- Question 43 — Wherein doth the exercise of the authority for discipline committed unto the elders of the church consist? ≈ 5 min
- Question 44 — May the church cast any person out of its communion without previous admonition? ≈ 26 min
- Question 47 — The preservation of the church in purity, order, and holiness, being provided for, by what way is it to be ≈ 4 min
- Question 48 — What is required of them who desire to join themselves unto the church? ≈ 4 min
- Question 49 — What is the duty of the elders of the church towards persons desiring to be admitted unto the fellowship o ≈ 9 min
- Question 51 — Wherein doth the especial form of a particular church, whereby it becomes such, and is distinguished as su ≈ 5 min
- Question 52 — Wherein consists the duty of any church of Christ towards other churches? ≈ 4 min
- Question 53 — What are the ends of all this dispensation and order of things in the church? ≈ 45 min
| Author | John Owen |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1600s |
| Categories | Prayer · Puritans · Devotional |
| Length | 42 chapters · ≈ 6 h 10 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.
