Thursday, June 20, 2019
Exclusion of all Church Government
View in Source Document Now, this latter part (about church-government) hath been so misrepresented, as if, because the wrong church government was excluded, the exclusion of all church-government was intended by me, there being no notice taken of my owning the true church-government, but only some passages of my disowning the false produced, as if they intended to overturn and deny all church-government, which never was intended by me: for in that very book, which is thus made use of, I did positively affirm the necessity and use of the true church-government, which may more fully appear in that which hereafter follows.
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This is a signifcant passage. It clearly sets out the highlights the distinction between those Quakers who recognised, identified with and participated in church government and those valued the inherent experience of the inshimn, want itself in itself to the exclusion of outward church-government. Penington clearly states that while there is a type of church-Government he excludes there is another form he embraces. It is not of coming out of all forms, it is a coming out of the wrong sonm of anuran. government.
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