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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
Chapter 4: Particular Churches and Pastors how far essential to a National Church, and what are it…
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Chap. IV. Particular Churches and Pastors how far essential to a National Church, and what are its materials.
§ 1. There is more essential to a National Church than the mere Formal Cause or Sovereign: Matter is essential as well as Form: Yet not all parts of the Matter neither, though all be parts Integral. As in the Body, a man cannot be a man without a stomach, liver, and lungs, and heart; but he may without a finger, or a hand, or leg.
§ 1. THere is more essential to a National Church than the meer Formal Cause or Soveraign: Matter is essential as well as Form: Yet not all parts of the Matter neither, though all be parts Integral. As in the Body, a man cannot be a man without a stomach, liver, and lungs, and heart; but he may without a finger, or a hand, or leg.
§ 2. I doubt not but I have proved that the Sovereign Magistrate is the Formal Humane Head of his Kingdom, and as Christian of the Kingdom as Christian: And nothing remaineth disputable but de Nomine, whether a Christian Kingdom must be named a Church: which Custom, Etymology and Scripture ⟨p. 12⟩put past question. Our Civilians (such as Dr. Zouch, Dr. Rich. Cousins, &c. and our Lawyers say trulier than most have believed, that the King is persona mixta, & Custos utriusque Tabulae, and Head of the Church as a Christian Kingdom. And for want of knowing this, and the true nature and bounds of his Office, how foully many have miscarried, I have showed.