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1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 56 Each different church do deem the other unlawfull, and so cannot with safe conscience communicate together in Church-ship.

1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 91 A special mark of their true Churchship.

1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 375 They [sc. the Jews] were His Own also by the Right of Churchship, as selected and enclosed by God from amidst all other Nations.

1718 J.-A. Dubourdieu Appeal Eng. Nation 86 The Laudean Church..grounds its Churchship on its Lineal Descent from the Grand Deceiver.

1827 Monthly Repos. June 440/1 Does he really think that any dogmatic church..can ever..meet another on such ground as he lays down, without one or the other..abandoning their churchship altogether?

1897 Presbyterian Q. July 378 What was sufficient for the salvation of the soul is sufficient qualification for churchship in the visible church.

1908 R. N. Price Holston Methodism III. i. 34 There was a disposition on the part of the older denominations to deny the legitimate churchship of Methodism.

1964 Muscatine (Iowa) Jrnl. 27 July 10/4 The scholarship..is granted on the basis of superior academic standing, leadership, ability, active churchship, character, personality, and need.

2001 R. A. Nathan in S. E. Porter et al. Faith in Millennium i. 186 Where were the models for political engagement, civic responsibility and prophetic churchship in 1950s Jamaica, Barbados, [etc.]?

1675 T. Tully Let. to R. Baxter 14 And would you have us yield up the great Truths of the Gospel for fear of offending such Churchshipps as these [sc. Papists, Socinians, Quakers]?