A26892:6574
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.
4. The Patriarchs, Primates and Metropolitans, at first claimed but a power about circumstantials, extrinsical to the Pastoral office, such as is the Timing and Placing of Councils, the si•ting above others, &c. And the exercise of some part of the Magistrates power committed to them, that is, the deposing of other Bishops or Pastors from their station of such Liberty and Countenance as the Magistrate may grant or deny as there is cause. But in time they degenerated to claim the spiritual power of the Keys, over the other Bishops; in point of Ordination, Excommunication, Absolution.
4. The Patriarcks, Primates and Metropolitans, at first claimed but a power about circumstantials, extrinsical to the Pastoral office, such as is the Timing and Placing of Councils, the si•ting above others, &c. And the exercise of some part of the Magistrates power committed to them, that is, the deposing of other Bishops or Pastors from their station of such Liberty and Countenance as the Magistrate may grant or deny as there is cause. But in time they degenerated to claim the spiritual power of the Keys, over the other Bishops; in point of Ordination, Excommunication, Absolution.
5. These Patriarchs, Primates and Metropolitans at first claimed their extrinsic power but from Man, that is, either the Consent and Agreement of the Churches, or the grant of the Emperors: But in time they grew to claim it as of Divine or Apostolical appointment, and as unalterable.
5. These Patriarks, Primates and Metropolitans at first claimed their extrinsick power but from Man, that is, either the Consent and Agreement of the Churches, or the grant of the Emperours: But in time they grew to claim it as of Divine or Apostolical appointment, and as unalterable.