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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 1
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§. 12. He that would see more for the Power of Princes vindicated from the Clergies Claim and Usurpation, may find much in many old Treatises, written for the Emperors against the Pope, collected by Goldastus de Monarch. and in Will. Barclay, but much better in Bishop Bilson, of Obedience, and in Bishop Andrew's Tortura Torti, and in Bishop Buckridge Roffensis of the Power of Kings, and much in Spalatensis de Repub.
§. 12. He that would see more for the Power of Princes vindicated from the Clergies Claim and Usurpation, may find much in many old Treatises, written for the Emperours against the Pope, collected by Goldastus de Monarch. and in Will. Barclay, but much better in Bishop Bilson, of Obedience, and in Bishop Andrew's Tortura Torti, and in Bishop Buckridge Roffensis of the Power of Kings, and much in Spalatensis de Repub.
§. 13. The Universality of Christians is the Catholic Church, of which Christ is the only Head or Sovereign; but it is the duty of these to worship God in solemn Assemblies, and to live in a holy Conversation together; and to join in striving against sin, and to help each other in the way to life; therefore Societies united for these ends are called, Particular Churches.
§. 13. The Vniversality of Christians is the Catholick Church, of which Christ is the only Head or Soveraign; but it is the duty of these to worship God in solemn Assemblies, and to live in a holy Conversation together; and to join in striving against sin, and to help each other in the way to life; therefore Societies united for these ends are called, Particular Churches.
§. 14. When the Apostles had converted a competent number of Christians, they gathered them into such Assemblies, and as a Politic Society, set over them such Ministers of Christ, as are afore described, to be their Guides.