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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
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.
3. He laid the Foundation of his offered National Kingdom among them: He owned the Title, and chose twelve Apostles in relation to the twelve Tribes; and the seventy Disciples related to their great Council: He would Preach to none but Israel, till they rejected him: He would have gathered all Jerusalem and her Children as the Hen gathereth her Chickens; but they would not, Mat. 23. 37. He destroyed them for refusing him.
4. He commissioned his Apostles to stay at Jerusalem till they rejected them. They made up the broken number of twelve as related to the twelve Tribes by Matthias, though Joses and others had also followed Christ.