A26914:78
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.
Prop. 1. The work of the Gospel-Ministry is not a work of mere Charity and Liberty, but an Office-work: Authority, Reason and Love, are its principles, Matth. 28. 19, 20. Titus 1. 5. Acts 14. 23.
Prop. 1. THe work of the Gospel-Ministry is not a work of meer Charity and Liberty, but an Office-work: Authority, Reason and Love, are its principles, Matth. 28. 19, 20. Titus 1. 5. Acts 14. 23.
2. This Office is instituted by Christ himself, and by the Holy Ghost, Ibid. Acts 20. 28, &c.
3▪ It was instituted for great and necessary ends, that the Ministry might be Christs Agents, Messengers, Seward, &c. for the furthering the affairs of his Spiritual Kingdom, and mens salvation in the world,