A26897:52
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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Q. 15. Do you not know that Baptism entereth into the Universal Church as such, and not into any particular Church without a further contract? And who made you Rulers of the Church Universal? why you rather than another Church. Did the People try and judge by Vote the Baptizing of the three thousand, Act. 3. and of Cornelius, and the E•much, and the Jailer, or the Samaritans, or any one person? Prove it if you can, and defy not God's Word.
Q. 15. Do you not know that Baptism entereth into the Universal Church as such, and not into any particular Church without a further contract? And who made you Rulers of the Church Universal? why you rather than another Church. Did the People try and judge by Vote the Baptizing of the three thousand, Act. 3. and of Cornelius, and the E•much, and the Iailor, or the Samaritans, or any one person? Prove it if you can, and defie not God's Word.
Q. 16. What if the Minister that must Baptize and give the Lord's Supper be unsatisfied in your Judgment? Must he go against his Conscience in obedience to you?
Q. 16. What if the Minister that must Baptize and give the Lord's Supper be unsatisfied in your Iudgment? Must he go against his Conscience in obedience to you?
Q. 17. Is one abused Text [Tell, and hear the Church] ignorantly repeated, enough to blind you against all this Evidence? If the King send to the City of London to cast out an ill Member, doth it follow that all the People must do it by equal Power or Vote, or some as Rulers, and others as obedient Consenters? your freedom and your choice of Rulers is not a Power to Rule. Papists and all Sects abuse this Text.