Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
John Owen was the main exponent of the classic Independency of the mid-seventeenth century. He was no mere sectary, the very antithesis of the fanatic; a highly intelligent and highly educated man; and a voluntary, not a compulsory, Nonconformist. From a writer as systematic and as magisterial as Owen it should be possible to gain some light on the meaning of the Lord's Supper for his generation of Dissenters.
page 170 note 1 The Works of John Owen D. D. Edited by Thomas Russell M.A. (1826), volumes ii and iii, All the references below are to this edition, in which the Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews occupies seven volumes, numbered separately. The remaining works occupy twenty-one volumes.
page 170 note 2 Sermon XVI: The Chamber of Imagery in the Church of Rome Laid Open, xvi, 62.
page 170 note 3 ibid.
page 171 note 1 The Nature of Apostasy from the Profession of the Gospel, xvii, 543.
page 171 note 2 ibid., xvii, 586.
page 171 note 3 A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God, xix, 474.
page 171 note 4 Greater Catechism, v, 33.
page 171 note 5 ibid., v, 35.
page 172 note 1 An Answer to Two Questions, xxi, 527.
page 172 note 2 ibid., 528.
page 172 note 3 ibid., 528f.
page 172 note 4 ibid., 529.
page 172 note 5 Lesser Catechism, v, 9.
page 172 note 6 A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God, xix, 544f.
page 172 note 7 ibid., xix, 511.
page 172 note 8 ibid., xix, 565ff.
page 172 note 9 The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished, xix, 53.
page 173 note 1 ibid., xix, 61.
page 173 note 2 A Review of the True Nature of Schism, xix, 272ff.
page 173 note 3 A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God, xix, 529.
page 173 note 4 ibid., xix, 519f and 533f.
page 173 note 5 ibid., 535.
page 173 note 6 The True Nature of a Gospel Church, xx, 438f.
page 173 note 7 ibid., 439f.
page 174 note 1 A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God, xix, 484.
page 174 note 2 A Discourse Concerning Liturgies and their Imposition, xix, 397–462.
page 174 note 3 Greater Catechism, v, 35.
page 174 note 4 A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God, xix; 545.
page 174 note 5 Exposition of Psalm 130, xiv, 177f.
page 174 note 6 The Doctrine of the Saint's Perseverance Explained and Confirmed, vi, 448.
page 175 note 1 Greater Catechism, v, 33f.
page 175 note 2 ibid., v. 36.
page 175 note 3 The Chamber of Imagery in the Church of Rome Laid Open, xvi, 63–66.
page 175 note 4 ibid., 66.
page 176 note 1 The Duties of Pastors and People Distinguished, xix, 33.
page 176 note 2 This commentary runs to seven volumes, totalling 4065 pages of about 450 words each—about 1,800,000 words.
page 176 note 3 Exposition of Hebrews, v, 79 (on Heb. 6. 1f).
page 176 note 4 ibid., vi, 52 (on Heb. 8.5).
page 177 note 1 ibid.
page 177 note 2 xvii, 147–270.
page 177 note 3 xvii, 149–56.
page 177 note 4 xvii, 167–75.
page 178 note 1 xvii, 176–87.
page 178 note 2 xvii, 187–99.
page 178 note 3 xvii, 199–202.
page 178 note 4 xvii, 209–14.
page 178 note 5 xvii, 230–3.
page 178 note 6 xvii, 262–5.
page 178 note 7 xvii, 268–70.