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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. To do all this as instituted Officers Superior to the Interior particular fixed Elders and Churches. All these continue.
§. 12. That all these are works to be continued is plain in Scripture. 1. The first is common to them with all Christs Ministers in the Office of Elders. And so is the fifth.
2. The second must be done by all occasionally and as far as the work of their particular Churches will allow; But that differeth much from doing it as the Work of a General Officer specially Commissioned for such general Indefinite work, and tied to no one settled Church, save for Temporary service. As we use to say, [that which is every mans work is well done by none, in comparison of that which some are specially appointed to.] Others may do it: These must do it. Others will make it their second work, but these their first.
2. The second must be done by all occasionally and as far as the work of their particular Churches will allow; But that differeth much from doing it as the Work of a General Officer specially Commissioned for such general Indefinite work, and tied to no one setled Church, save for Temporary service. As we use to say, [that which is every mans work is well done by none, in comparison of that which some are specially appointed to.] Others may do it: These must do it. Others will make it their second work, but these their first.