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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. 22. But did not the Apostles as one College Govern the whole Church?
Q. 22. But did not the Apostles as one Colledge Govern the whole Church?
A. 1. I proved to you before, that the Holy Ghost was given the Apostles to perfect Universal Legislation, as Christs Agent and Advocate, and that in this they have no Successors. 2. And it was easy for them to exercise Acts of Judicial Determination over such as were among them, and near them, when the Church was small. 3. And yet we read not that ever they did this in a General Council, or by the Authority of a Major Vote. For that meeting in Act. 15. was no General Council, and the Elders and Brethren joined with them that belonged to Jerusalem: and they were all by the same Spirit of the same mind, and none Dissenters. Every single Apostle had the Spirit of Infallibility for his proper work: And they had an Indefinite charge of the whole Church, and in their several circuits exercised it: Paul could by the Spirit deliver a Law of Christ to the World, without taking it from the other Apostles, Gal. 2. The Apostles were foundation Stones, but Christ only was the Head Corner-stone. They never set up a Judicial Government of all the Churches under themselves as a ⟨p. 202⟩constitutive Unifying Aristocracy, by whose major Vote all must be Governed: When they had finished the work of Universal Legislation, and settled Doctrine and Order, for which they stayed together at Jerusalem, they dispersed themselves over the World, and we never find that they Judicially governed the Churches either in Synods or by Letters, by a major Vote, but settled Guides in ever Church as God by Moses did Priests and Levites, that had no Legislative Power.m
A. 1. I proved to you before, that the Holy Ghost was given the Apostles to perfect Universal Ligislation, as Christs Agent and Advocate, and that in this they have no Successors. 2. And it was easie for them to exercise Acts of Judicial Determination over such as were among them, and near them, when the Church was small. 3. And yet we read not that ever they did this in a General Council, or by the Authority of a Major Vote. For that meeting in