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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.
The Major is not questioned. The Minor, (besides the Concil. Rom. sub Greg. 7. which determineth that the Pope may depose Emperors) I there proved from the express words of Concil. Lateran. sub Innoc. 3. Can. 3. which uttereth ⟨p. 50⟩it at large. And if any Protestant do (with Dr. Tailor, Dr. Gunning, and Dr. Pierson) doubt of the authority of those Canons, that's nothing to the Papists who justify it as an approved Council, and vindicate it, as you may find with copiousness and confidence, in the printed Answer to the last named Doctors. What impudency then is it in these men to challenge me to prove, and yet overlook my proof?
The Major is not questioned. The Minor, (besides the Concil. Rom. sub Greg. 7. which determineth that the Pope may depose Emperours) I there proved from the express words of Concil. Lateran. sub Innoc. 3. Can. 3. which uttereth ⟨p. 50⟩it at large. And if any Protestant do (with Dr. Tailor, Dr. Gunning, and Dr. Pierson) doubt of the authority of those Canons, thats nothing to the Papists who justifie it as an approved Council, and vindicate it, as you may find with copiousness and confidence, in the printed Answer to the last named Doctors. What impudency then is it in these men to challenge me to prove, and yet overlook my proof?
99. CHRISTIANITY according to the Scripture and primitive simplicity, in Doctrine, Worship, Government and Life, doth constitute a CHRISTIAN, and a Christian Church. The making of humane additions and mutable adjuncts to seem things necessary, doth constitute a SECT. (And alas how small a part of the Christian world, is not entangled in some such Sect.) To be united to all Christians, in the bond of Christianity, is to be a Catholic: To trouble the Churches peace by striving to set up one Sect or Faction, and suppress the rest, is to be a Schismatic and Sectary.
99. CHRISTIANITY according to the Scripture and primitive simplicity, in Doctrine, Worship, Government and Life, doth constitute a CHRISTIAN, and a Christian Church. The making of humane additions and mutable adjuncts to seem things necessary, doth constitute a SECT. (And alas how small a part of the Christian world, is not entangled in some such Sect.) To be united to all Christians, in the bond of Christianity, is to be a Catholick: To trouble the Churches peace by striving to set up one Sect or Faction, and suppress the rest, is to be a Schismatick and Sectary.