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Owen on Weekly Communion

Posted on 12. Sep, 2009 by Danny Hyde in John Owen

Just to follow up on Mark’s recent post concerning Thomas Goodwin’s teaching on weekly communion, Goodwin’s fellow Congregationalist, John Owen, also taught that the Lord’s Supper should be administered every Lord’s Day in his A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God and Discipline of the Churches of the New Testament (1667):

Q. 40. How often is that ordinance to be administered?

A. Every first day of the week, or at least as often as opportunity and conveniency may be obtained.—1 Cor. xi.26; Acts xx.7 (Works 15, 512).

What’s fascinating to me is that Owen did not cite Acts 2:42, contra Calvin, Goodwin, et al, as a proof-text for his position.

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