A26892:6583
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.
Therefore if you will needs call both these societies [Churches] you must distinguish them into Pastoral Churches, and Regal Churches, or Magistratical Churches; for the word [national] notifieth not the Government which is the constitutive part; and may be used of Consociated Churches, though under many Civil Governors (as in the Saxon Heptarchy).
Therefore if you will needs call both these societies [Churches] you must distinguish them into Pastoral Churches, and Regal Churches, or Magistratical Churches; for the word [national] notifieth not the Government which is the constitutive part; and may be used of Consociated Churches, though under many Civil Governours (as in the Saxon Heptarchy).
So that our question is much like this, Whether all the Grammar Schools in England, as under one King may be called one National School? Answ. Not without unfitness, and inconveniences: But rather than breed any quarrel, they may call them so that please: But, 1. They must confess that a particular School is the famosius significatum. 2. That the King is King of Schools, but not a Schoolmaster, nor a constitutive part of a School; 3. That if you will needs denominate them from the Regent part, as One, you must call them all one Royal School, if you will leave the well known sense of words for such uncouth phrases. But give us leave to call the Body which is essentiated by a King, by the name of a Kingdom only, though it have in it many Schools, Academies, Colleges, Cities, Churches, which they that please may call all one Royal School, Academy, College, City and Church, if they love confusion.
So that our question is much like this, Whether all the Grammar Schools in England, as under one King may be called one National School? Answ. Not without unfitness, and inconveniences: But rather than breed any quarrel, they may call them so that please: But, 1. They must confess that a particular School is the famosius significatum. 2. That the King is King of Schools, but not a Schoolmaster, nor a constitutive part of a School; 3. That if you will needs denominate them from the Regent part, as One, you must call them all one Royal School, if you will leave the well known sense of words for such uncouth phrases. But give us leave to call the Body which is essentiated by a King, by the name of a Kingdom only, though it have in it many Schools, Academies, Colledges, Cities, Churches, which they that please may call all one Royal School, Academy, Colledge, City and Church, if they love confusion.