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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
And even Dr. Hammond is for Independency ⟨p. 153⟩so far as to say, that [every such regular assembly of Christians under a Bishop, (such as Timothy was) an Oeconomus set over them by Christ, was the Church of the Living God.] Though he add [such again every larger circuit under the Metropolitan, &c.] Yet he confesseth, [And such all the particular Churches of the whole World, considered together under the supreme head, Christ Jesus, dispensing them all by himself, and administering them severally, not by any one Oeconomus; but by the several Bishops, as inferior heads of unity to the several bodies, so constituted by the several Apostles in their plantations each of them having an [Greek or Hebrew], a several distinct commission from Christ immediately and subordinate to none but the supreme Donor or plenipotentiary.] So far he; on 1 Tim. 3. 1•. e.
And even Dr. Hammond is for Independency ⟨p. 153⟩so far as to say, that [every such regular assembly of Christians under a Bishop, (such as Timothy was) an Oeconomus set over them by Christ, was the Church of the Living God.] Though he adde [such again every larger circuit under the Metropolitane, &c.] Yet he confesseth, [And such all the particular Churches of the whole World, considered together under the supream head, Christ Iesus, dispensing them all by himself, and administring them severally, not by any one Oeconomus; but by the several Bishops, as inferiour heads of unity to the several bodies, so constituted by the several Apostles in their plantati••s each of them having an 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a several distinct commission from Christ immediately and subordinate to none but the supream Donor or plenepotentiary.] So far he; on 1 Tim. 3. 1•. e.