A26948:24
Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters
Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters.
London : Printed and are to be sold by E. Whitlock, 1697
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§ 3. Therefore no Christian must be of a Party or Sect as such, that is, as dividing it self from the rest, causing Schism or Contention in the Body, or making a rent unnecessarily in any particular Church which is a part.
§ 8. Nothing will warrant us to separate from a Church as no Church, but the want of something essential to a Church.
§ 11. It is essential to particular Political Churches, that they be constituted of true Bishops or Pastors and of Flocks of baptized or professed Christians, united for holy Communion in the Worshipping of God, and the promoting of the Salvation of the Several Members.
§ 12. It is essential to a true Bishop or Pastor of the Church to be in Office (that is in authority and obligation) appointed by Christ in Subordination to him in the three parts of his Offices, Prophetical, Priestly and Kingly. That is, to teach the People, to stand between them and God in Worship, and to guide or govern them by the Paternal exercise of the Keys of his Church.