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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.
§ 25. Though there was no Christian King for ⟨p. 260⟩three hundred years (unless he of Edessa, or Lucius of England, of whom we have little certainty; but it's like that both were subjects to others) yet if a Supreme Church-Power had been necessary, the Apostles would have before erected it; which they never did: For even Rome pretendeth to be by them made the Ruler of the whole world, and not a mere National Head (which Constantinople claimed, but not as of Apostolical institution.)
§ 25. Though there was no Christian King for ⟨p. 260⟩three hundred years (unless he of Edessa, or Lucius of England, of whom we have little certainty; but it's like that both were subjects to others) yet if a Supream Church-Power had been necessary, the Apostles would have before erected it; which they never did: For even Rome pretendeth to be by them made the Ruler of the whole world, and not a meer National Head (which Constantinople claimed, but not as of Apostolical institution.)
§ 27. The question whether the Jews, had they believed, should have continued their High-Priest and Church Policy, is vain as to our purpose; 1. It being certain to Christ that they would be dissolved by unbelief: And 2. he having settled another way, and changed theirs: 3. And if their Priesthood and Law (except as it typified spiritual things) had stood, yet it would not have bound the Gentile Christians in other Nations.
§ 27. The question whether the Jews, had they believed, should have continued their High-Priest and Church Policy, is vain as to our purpose; 1. It being certain to Christ that they would be dissolved by unbelief: And 2. he having setled another way, and changed theirs: 3. And if their Priesthood and Law (except as it typified spiritual things) had stood, yet it would not have bound the Gentile Christians in other Nations.