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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.
§ 13 If the Jews form of Government be ours, then the High-Priest must have the power of the Sword, or sit in judgment for life or death, as Deut. 17. 12, 13. and other places show: But many Papists and Protestants are agreed that the clergy have no power of the Sword, or force, unless the King make them also Magistrates.
§ 13 If the Jews form of Government be ours, then the High-Priest must have the power of the Sword, or sit in judgment for life or death, as Deut. 17. 12, 13. and other places shew: But many Papists and Protestants are agreed that the clergy have no power of the Sword, or force, unless the King make them also Magistrates.
§ 14. It is a matter of so great importance to ⟨p. 256⟩the Church to know whom we must obey, that it is not to be thought that any way is made necessary by Christ, which he hath not made intelligible and certain to be indeed his will: Especially when the Apostles strove who should be the chief, and two of them made it their request; and when the Corinthians and others were ready to set up one before another, and say I am of Cephas, &c.
§ 15. Yea Christ on this occasion expressly forbade them to seek to be one above another, and told them that though Kings exercise authority, and have magnifying Titles, with them it should not be so, but their preeminence should consist, as that of a servant, in humility and service unto others Luk. 22. which will not stand (as we suppose) with establishing the Jewish order.