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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
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.
XLVI. 14. If Bishops that have no better a foundation of their relative power over that particular flock, shall impose inferior Pastors or Presbyters on the Parish-Churches; & command the peoples acceptance & obedience, the people are not bound to accept and obey them by any authority that is in that command as such: Nor is it Schism to disobey it, no more than it is treason to reject the Usurper of a Kingdom.
XLVII. 15. whilst such obtruded Parish Pastors have no consent of the flock (explicit or implicit) that Parish is no Parish Church, in the proper Political Organized sense, as we now speak of a Church, as constituted by the Governing and Governed parts, For that which wanteth an essential part, wanteth the Essence, And therefore it is no Schism to pronounce it no such Church, and to deny it the Communion proper to such a Church. Though yet as the word [Church] doth signify an ungoverned Society in potentia proxima to receive Government, they may be improperly called a Church as they are in a vacancy.
XLVII. 15. whilest such obtruded Parish Pastors have no consent of the flock (explicite or implicite) that Parish is no Parish Church, in the proper Political Organized sense, as we now speak of a Church, as constituted by the Governing and Governed parts, For that which wanteth an essential part, wanteth the Essence, And therefore it is no Schism to pronounce it no such Church, and to deny it the Communion proper to such a Church. Though yet as the word [Church] doth signifie an ungoverned Society in potentia proxima to receive Government, they may be improperly called a Church as they are in a vacancy.
XLVIII. 16. If they that make a Diocese the lowest proper Church (which hath a Bishop, and none under him) and a Parish to be but a part of the Diocesan Church, and no proper Church of it self, as having no Episcopus Gregis, shall accuse those as separating from the Church, who separate not from the Bishop, and keep to any