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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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XXXIV. 2. All Protestants are agreed that it is no Schism to deny obedience to the Roman Pope; nor to deny that communion with them, which they will not have without obedience: To separate from other Churches, is to deny them mere Communion; But to separate from the Roman as Papal, is but to deny them subjection▪ To deny any other Christian Church to be a true Church is Schismatical, if they have the Essentials of a Church: But to deny the Papal Church or Monarchy to be a true Church of Christ's institution, is true, just and necessary, though they be Christians; because we mean only the Papal Church form, as it is an Universal Ecclesiastical Monarchy of the whole Christian world, which no other Church but that doth claim.
XXXIV. 2. All Protestants are agreed that it is no Schism to deny obedience to the Roman Pope; nor to deny that communion with them, which they will not have without obedience: To separate from other Churches, is to deny them meer Communion; But to separate from the Roman as Papal, is but to deny them subjection▪ To deny any other Christian Church to be a true Church is Schismatical, if they have the Essentials of a Church: But to deny the Papal Church or Monarchy to be a true Church of Christ's institution, is true, just and necessary, though they be Christians; because we mean only the Papal Church form, as it is an Universal Ecclesiastical Monarchy of the whole Christian world, which no other Church but that doth claim.
XXXV. 3. It is no Schism to deny Subjection to Pope, Councils or Patriarchs, of other Kingdom•, or to any foreign Power by what names or titles soever called.
XXXV. 3. It is no Schism to deny Subjection to Pope, Councils or Patriarchs, of other Kingdom•, or to any forein Power by what names or titles soever called.