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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.
§ 35. But if such a settlement were certainly ⟨p. 265⟩best, let it be remembered, 1. That the Jews had not under the chief High-Priest, one in every City or Tribe like Diocesan Bishops. 2. That their Synagogues had discipline within themselves; ever where there was but a Village of ten persons, there was a Presbyter that had the power of judging offenders.
§ 35. But if such a settlement were certainly ⟨p. 265⟩best, let it be remembred, 1. That the Jews had not under the chief High-Priest, one in every City or Tribe like Diocesane Bishops. 2. That their Synagogues had discipline within themselves; ever where there was but a Village of ten persons, there was a Presbyter that had the power of judging offenders.
§ 36. What man doth prudently set up, man may prudently alter as there is cause. Greg. Nazianzen earnestly wisheth that there were no difference of Place or seats among the Pastors of the Church. And therefore he neither thought their Government of each other to be of Divine right, nor of prudential necessity or use: Else he would have been against it. And the whole Greek Church did, and still doth take the seats of preeminence to be but of mans appointment, or else they would never have changed them, and set Constantinople so high as they did: And the Council of Calcedon expressly determineth, that Rome was by the fathers made the chief seat because it was the seat of the Emperor; which was mutable.
§ 36. What man doth prudently set up, man may prudently alter as there is cause. Greg. Nazianzen earnestly wisheth that there were no difference of Place or seats among the Pastors of the Church. And therefore he neither thought their Government of each other to be of Divine right, nor of prudential necessity or use: Else he would have been against it. And the whole Greek Church did, and still doth take the seats of preeminence to be but of mans appointment, or else they would never have changed them, and set Constantinople so high as they did: And the Council of Calcedon expresly determineth, that Rome was by the fathers made the chief seat because it was the seat of the Emperour; which was mutable.