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Richard Baxters answer to Dr. Edward Stillingfleet's charge of separation containing, I. some queries…
Richard Baxters answer to Dr. Edward Stillingfleet's charge of separation containing, I. some queries necessary for the understanding of his accusation, II. a reply to his letter which denieth a solution, III. an answer to his printed sermon : humbly tendered, I. to himself, II. to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the court of aldermen, III. to the readers of his accusation, the forum where we are accused.Richard Baxters answer to Dr. Edward Stillingfleet's charge of separation containing, I. some queries necessary for the understanding of his accusation, II. a reply to his letter which denyeth a solution, III. an answer to his printed sermon : humbly tendred, I. to himself, II. to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the court of aldermen, III. to the readers of his accusation, the forum where we are accused.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1680
Letter: To the Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls, &c.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 19. And the Churches in the Roman Empire before Constantine, were true Churches of Christ's Institution, and they had power to govern and reform themselves; and yet they had no humane Constitutive Head, Regal or Sacerdotal, though they had a Civil Heathen Governor, which was an extrinsic accidental Head.
§. 19. And the Churches in the Roman Empire before Constantine, were true Churches of Christ's Institution, and they had power to govern and reform themselves; and yet they had no humane Constitutive Head, Regal or Sacerdotal, though they had a Civil Heathen Governour, which was an extrinsick accidental Head.
It is so contrary to all Sense and Religion, that either a Man as a Man, or a Family, or a Church as such, should have no power to govern and reform it self, that I must needs judg that while you speak confusedly, you meant only a Regal or Supreme Civil Power, which yet is totâ specie distinct from that which is properly Ecclesiastical.
It is so contrary to all Sence and Religion, that either a Man as a Man, or a Family, or a Church as such, should have no power to govern and reform it self, that I must needs judg that while you speak confusedly, you meant only a Regal or Supreme Civil Power, which yet is totâ specie distinct from that which is properly Ecclesiastical.
§. 20. Serm. p. 17. [And so the several Churches of the Lydian or Proconsular Asia, if they had been united in one Kingdom, and governed by the same Authority, under the same Rules, might have been truly called the Lydian Church.]