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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.
7. To Sentence some men (as aforesaid) to Satan's Execution.
7. To Sentence some men (as aforesaid) to Satans Execution.
8. To be the first planters of Congregate Churches, and ordainers of their Pastors or Elders, and authorized to institute such Orders and Subordinate Officers, (Deacons, Deaconesses,) by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as should continue.
8. To be the first planters of Congregate Churches, and ordainers of their Pastors or Elders, and authorized to institute such Orders and Subordinate Officers, (Deacons, Deaconnesses,) by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as should continue.
9. To be Inspired Infallible Expounders of the Prophecies and Types of the Old Testament. And the Infallible deciders of Controversies.