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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.
Obj. But Churches must consist only of those that seem sincere.
Ans. All seem sincere that profess sincerity, till it be by trial and witness publicly disproved. There are several degrees of seeming; some by fuller evidences than others; but all that Vow it, and stand to that Vow, do seem and profess it till disproved.
Ans. All seem sincere that profess sincerity, till it be by tryal and witness publickly disproved. There are several degrees of seeming; some by fuller evidences than others; but all that Vow it, and stand to that Vow, do seem and profess it till disproved.
Obj. But how prove you that a Christian Kingdom is a Church?
Ans. Doth your Question mean de Re, or de Nomine? I told you what I mean by a Church, no other than a Christian Kingdom consisting of a Christian Sovereign, and Christian Subjects, worshipping God in confederate particular Churches (ordinarily) will you deny the Being or the Duty of such?