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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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.
Q. 19. But is not a General Council the Universal Governor?
Q. 19. But is not a General Council the Universal Governour?
A. No: 1. Else the Church would be no Church, when there is no General Council, for want of its Unifying Government: And 2. There indeed never was a general Council of all the Christian World: But they were called by the Roman Emperors, and were called General as to that Empire (as the Subscriptions yet show). 3. And there never can be an Universal ⟨p. 200⟩Council: It were madness and wickedness to attempt it: To send for the Aged Bishops from all Nations of the Christian World, (when none is Empowered to determine Whither or When) even from the Countries of Turks, and other Infidels, or Princes in War with one another that will not permit them: And what room shall hold them, and what one Language can they all speak? And how few will live to return home with the Decrees? And will not the Country were they meet, by nearness, have more Voices than all the rest? And what is all this to do? To condemn Christ as not having made Laws sufficient for the Universal part of Government, but leave such a burden on uncapable Men: And to tell the Church that Christian Religion is a mutable growing thing, and can never be known to attain its ripeness, but by new Laws must be made still bigger, and another thing.
A. No: 1. Else the Church would be no Church, when there is no General Council, for want of its Unifying Government: And 2. There indeed never was a general Council of all the Christian World: But they were called by the Roman Emperours, and were called General as to that Empire (as the Subscriptions yet shew). 3. And there never can be an Universal ⟨p. 200⟩Council: It were madness and wickedness to attempt it: To send for the Aged Bishops from all Nations of the Christian World, (when none is Empowered to determine Whither or When) even from the Countreys of Turks, and other Infidels, or Princes in War with one another that will not permit them: And what room shall hold them, and what one Language can they all speak? And how few will live to return home with the Decrees? And will not the Countrey were they meet, by nearness, have more Voices than all the rest? And what is all this to do? To condemn Christ as not having made Laws sufficient for the Universal part of Government, but leave such a burden on uncapable Men: And to tell the Church that Christian Religion is a mutable growing thing, and can never be known to attain its ripeness, but by new Laws must be made still bigger, and another thing.