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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.
§. 9. But there is no doubt but this Power called the Keys or Governing Power, extended both to the ordinary and the extraordinary part of the Apostles Office, and included even such miraculous power as Peter executed on Ananias and Sapphira, and Paul on Elymas, and which is called giving up to Satan, that the Flesh may be destroyed, and they may learn not to blaspheme. When there were no Christian Magistrates, Christ made his Apostles the executioners of his justice, (as to sentence, as Satan was in executing their sentence) not when and how they pleased, but as the Spirit determined them.
§. 10. That the office of the Apostles was partly for an ordinary sort of work, to be continued to the end of the World, and partly for the extraordinary work, which ended with them, or is now ceased, is past dispute.
1. The extraordinary work was, 1. To be immediately sent by Christs own mouth, and to go upon that Mission, and act by that Commission, (in which also the seventy did concur.)