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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.
§ 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.
§ 28. When Emperors became Christians, they did not set up the Jewish Policy, nor thought themselves bound to it; no nor any settled Priestly Supremacy for National Government: For Councils were called but on rare accidents by the Emperors themselves, and to decide particular cases about Heresies: And the Pope had but the first voice in such Councils.
§ 28. When Emperours became Christians, they did not set up the Jewish Policy, nor thought themselves bound to it; no nor any setled Priestly Supremacy for National Government: For Councils were called but on rare accidents by the Emperours themselves, and to decide particular cases about Heresies: And the Pope had but the first voice in such Councils.
§ 29. But if every Nation must have the Jewish Policy, then the whole Empire must then have one High Priest, and then the Pope hath a fair pretence to his claim of a Divine Institution, as the Church Sovereign of the whole Empire, which, it's like, was then seven parts in eight of the whole Christian world at least, (unless Abyssinia