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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 5: Of Pastors or the Bishops of National Churches, that they are to be of Three ranks.
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.
§ 8. It is plain that Christ would have this just number of twelve kept up in relation to the twelve Tribes, till the Kingdom was taken from them, because one, and but one was to be chosen in Judas room, and so the due number of the Twelve to be kept up.
This proveth the Institution of a disparity of Ministers.
§ 8. The Keys of the Kingdom were given first to the Apostles, before the empowering of the seventy, and that as to distinct superior Officers. And the word Keys signifieth Government, when Christ is said to have the Keys, it is expounded by his opening and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.
The Government was laid on his shoulders as King and Counsellor, Isa. 9. 6, 7, 8.
The Government was laid on his shoulders as King and Counseller, Isa. 9. 6, 7, 8