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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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2. And the Papal and French Prelatists, have by this Ignorance, got a fixed false Opinion, that, as Pastors are the Constitutive ⟨p. 13⟩Heads of Particular Churches, so they must be of National Churches, and that every National Church must be unified and specified by one Clergy Sovereignty, in one person, or in a College or Aristocracy: Or else that a Christian Kingdom is not properly a Church; because it hath not a Priestly Head. It's true, that it is not univocally a Church of the same species or rank as a Pastoral Church is, but is more eminently, and as fitly called a Church, as Israel was.
2. And the Papal and French Prelatists, have by this Ignorance, got a fixed false Opinion, that, as Pastors are the Constitutive ⟨p. 13⟩Heads of Particular Churches, so they must be of National Churches, and that every National Church must be unified and specified by one Clergy Soveraignty, in one person, or in a Colledge or Aristocracy: Or else that a Christian Kingdom is not properly a Church; because it hath not a Priestly Head. It's true, that it is not univocally a Church of the same species or rank as a Pastoral Church is, but is more eminently, and as fitly called a Church, as Israel was.
3. And the Independent Separatists and Anabaptists, for want of understanding this, as I said before, cry down National Churches with scorn, and run away from National Concord, into endless Divisions and Sects, while at the same time they pray and wait for National Churches in the Millennium as the Fifth Monarchy. And none of them will deny it to be the Duty of all Kings and Kingdoms to be Christians; and so that Christian Kingdoms are Christ's Institution and Command.