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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.
9. In due time the Kingdoms of the World were made the Ringdoms of the Lord and of his Christ, Rev. 11. & 19.
10. Kings are to be the Churches Nursing Fathers.
11. All Power in Heaven and Earth is given to Christ, Mat. 28. and by him Kings Reign. He is King of Kings, and not of single persons only.
12. But what need there any other proof, while all Christians confess that All Kings are bound to be Christian Kings, and to promote Christianity to their Power; and all Magistrates and Subjects to be Christians: And are not they then bound to be Christian Kingdoms; and that is National Churches?