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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.
§ 7. There may be much more said for the continuance of the Jews civil Policy than for their Ecclesiastical: For there is much more forbidden of the latter, than of the former; Though all nations be not bound to their civil policy, they may set it up if they please; They are not prohibited: For Christ hath not made new Laws for civil states as such; But he hath made new Church Laws, and thereby altered, yea prohibited much of the old.
§ 7. There may be much more said for the continuance of the Jews civil Policy than for their Ecclesiastical: For there is much more forbidden of the latter, than of the former; Though all nations be not bound to their civil policie, they may set it up if they please; They are not prohibited: For Christ hath not made new Laws for civil states as such; But he hath made new Church Laws, and thereby altered, yea prohibited much of the old.
§ 8. We know no more reason why the Jewish form should bind us, than that which was before the Jews: and particularly Melchizedek's, who was a King and Priest: God owned both and commandeth us neither, at least as in conformity to them.
§ 8. We know no more reason why the Jewish form should bind us, than that which was before the Jews: and particularily Melchezedeks, who was a King and Priest: God owned both and commandeth us neither, at least as in conformity to them.
§ 9. The Holy Ghost saith expressly Heb. 7. 11. 12. That perfection was not by the Levitical Priesthood, and that the Priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change of the Law, which is called, the Law of a carnal Commandment, verse 16. and that there is a disannulling of the Commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness of it; for the Law made nothing perfect, v. 18, 19. the Covenant or Law being not faultless a new one doth succeed it v. 7. 8. 9. 10. The first Tabernacle is not standing which had their