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The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…
The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom & magistracy under the name of a church & church-government usurped by the Pope, or liberally given him by popish princes opened 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.
40. Because Magistrates and people (as aforesaid) cannot attend so great a work as this, without the neglect of their particular Callings, and are not to be supposed so •it as the Pastor, and because God hath made it the work of his Office, the people are to rest in his judgement about the fitness and Title of those that have the public Church communion with them, (though they are the Judges and Choosers of their Domestic and private familiars:) And they must not separate from them that are thus regularly admitted.
40. Because Magistrates and people (as aforesaid) cannot attend so great a work as this, without the neglect of their particular Callings, and are not to be supposed so •it as the Pastor, and because God hath made it the work of his Office, the people are to rest in his judgement about the fitness and Title of those that have the publick Church communion with them, (though they are the Judges and Choosers of their Domestick and private familiars:) And they must not separate from them that are thus regularly admitted.
41. Yet when the Pastors by mal-administration, give them just cause, the flock may seek their due remedy: of which more anon.
42. This power is essentially in the Ministerial Office; and therefore is in every single Pastor, and not only in some few, or in the abler sort, or only in a Synod, Mat. 16. 19.