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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.
2. To be the Witnesses of what they had seen Christ do, and of what they had heard him say.
3. To deliver this to the World by Preaching and Writing as such first Witnesses.
4. To do this under a Promise of Christ, that he would give ⟨p. 17⟩them his Spirit to bring all things to remembrance, and to lead them Infallibly into all Truth.
5. To speak the Languages which they had never learnt by art or use.