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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.
Ans. Our Question is of the Institution and Duty: confess that, and let us do our endeavour.
2. Is not this a Christian Kingdom, while King and Subjects ⟨p. 9⟩are baptized professed Christians? Are we a Protestant Kingdom, and not a Christian Kingdom? And are not others such?
Obj. But these be mostly but nominal Hypocrite Christians.
Ans. They are visible professed Christians. The Corn is not without Straw and Chaff. Do you look for Kingdoms that consist only of the sincere?
Obj. But Churches must consist only of those that seem sincere.