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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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M. 1. It is Christ's Law and Institution, and that is the same reason that we give for our Christianity it self.
L. But I have read in Erastus, Selden, Ludov. Moulin and Prin, that Christ did but tell his Disciples how they should carry themselves under the Jewish Government, and use their Sanhedrims or Judicatures, and did not institute any new sort of Church-Discipline.
L. But I have read in Erastus, Selden, Ludov. Moulin and Prin, that Christ did but tell his Disciples how they should carry themselves under the Jewish Government, and use their Sanedrims or Iudicatures, and did not institute any new sort of Church-Discipline.
M. Christ's taking occasion from the Jewish Judicatures to institute his Discipline, doth no more prove that he did not obligatorily institute it, than his calling twelve Apostles according to the number of the Tribes, and his taking occasion from former practice, for Baptism, Ministry, Elders, &c. doth prove that he ordained no such things. 2. What need Christ command his Disciples to use that Jewish Government which was in use before, and they could not avoid? 3. Christ knew that the Jewish Government was presently going down, and tells his Disciples that they should be judged and scourged as Malefactors in those Synagogues. And is it like then that he is calling them to exercise their discipline in those Synagogues. 4. If it were so, it will hold à fortiore, that if Christ during the Jewish Policy command them to use such a Discipline, much more in his own Churches.
M. Christ's taking occasion from the Iewish Judicatures to institute his Discipline, doth no more prove that he did not obligatorily institute it, than his calling twelve Apostles according to the number of the Tribes, and his taking occasion from former practice, for Baptism, Ministry, Elders, &c. doth prove that he ordained no such things. 2. What need Christ command his Disciples to use that Iewish Government which was in use before, and they could not avoid? 3. Christ knew that the Iewish Government was presently going down, and tells his Disciples that they should be judged and scourged as Malefactors in those Synagogues. And is it like then that he is calling them to exercise their discipline in those Synagogues. 4. If it were so, it will hold à fortiore, that if Christ during the Iewish Policy command them to use such a Discipline, much more in his own Churches.