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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quest. 10. What if the Magistrate command the people to receive one Pastor, and the Bishops or Ordainers another, which of them must be obeyed?
1. The Magistrate and not the Bishop or people, (unless under him) hath the power and disposal1 of the Circumstantials or Accidents of the Church; I mean of the Temple, the Pulpit, the Tithes, &c. And he is to determine what Ministers are fit either for his own Countenance or Toleration and what not. In these therefore he is to be obeyed before the Bishops or others.
1. THe Magistrate and not the Bishop or people, (unless under him) hath the power and disposal1 of the Circumstantials or Accidents of the Church; I mean of the Temple, the Pulpit, the Tythes, &c. And he is to determine what Ministers are fit either for his own Countenance or Toleration and what not. In these therefore he is to be obeyed before the Bishops or others.
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2. If a Pope or Prelate of a foreign Church, or any that hath no lawful Jurisdiction or Government over the Church that wanteth a Pastor, shall command them to receive one, their command is null, and to be contemned.