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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
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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.
2. From the Canons. Can. 139. [A National Synod the Church Representative; Whosoever shall affirm that the Sacred Synod of this Nation, in the name of Christ and by the Kings authority assembled, is not the true Church of England by representation, let him be excommunicated, &c.] so that the Synod is but the Representative Church: And therefore not the Political Head of the Church: whether it be the Laity, ⟨p. 837⟩or the whole Clergy or both, which they Represent, Representation of those that are no National Head, maketh them not a National Head.
3. From the ordinary judgement of Episcopal Divines, (maintained by Bishop Bilson and many others at large against the Papists) that all Bishops jure divino are Equal and Independent, further than humane Laws, or Agreements or difference of Gifts may difference them, or as they are bound to consociation for Concord.
3. From the ordinary judgement of Episcopal Divines, (maintained by Bishop Bilson and many others at large against the Papists) that all Bishops jure divino are Equal and Independant, further than humane Laws, or Agreements or difference of Gifts may difference them, or as they are bound to consociation for Concord.
6. How shall I deny not only the Lawfulness, but the necessity of such a Papacy as really was in the Roman Empire, on your grounds? I have proved against W. Johnson that the Pope was then actually but the Head of the Imperial Churches, and not of all the World. And if there must be one National Ecclesiastical Head under one King, why not one also in one Empire? And whether it be one Monarch, or a collective person, it is still one Political person which is now in question. (Either a Ruling Pope, or a Ruling Aristocracy or Democracy, which is not the great matter in Controversy.)