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Church concord
Church concord containing I. a dissuasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.Church concord containing I. a disswasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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Chap. VII. Difference V.
THE Fifth point of Difference is, about the first subject of the power of the Keys? Or more plainly and limitedly, of the Right of Church Government, and in particular of Censures. And here the difference seemeth greater1 than in any of the rest: And with some it is so. Some have made the Congregation by a Major Vote the Governors of the Church. Against this as intolerable we have much to say. 1. There is no power but of God: But the power of Church Governing is not given to the people by God; therefore it is none. The Minor is good till a power be proved, and the peoples Commission produced; which never yet hath been attempted with any considerable appearance of Truth.2
THE Fifth point of Difference is, about the first subject of the power of the Keys? Or more plainly and limitedly, of the Right of Church Government, and in particular of Censures. And here the difference seemeth greater1 than in any of the rest: And with some it is so. Some have made the Congregation by a Major Vote the Governours of the Church. Against this as intolerable we have much to say. 1. There is no power but of God: But the power of Church Governing is not given to the people by God; therefore it is none. The Minor is good till a power be proved, and the peoples Commission produced; which never yet hath been attempted with any considerable appearance of Truth.2
- 1Against the peoples Power of the Keys Rutherford Peaceable Plea, and in his Due Right of Presbyteries, and many more have written at large, and unanswerably taking the Keys for [Government or Pastoral Administrations.]