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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.
6. And of trying Causes officially in various Congregations. There is the same reason for these in all Ages as there was in the first.
7. And that all this be done as by General Officers superior to the particular fixed Elders, hath the same reason for it now as it had at the first. All these are works that may still be done; and therefore must have Officers to do them.
§ 13. That Christ intended a settled Institution of such Disparity of Ministers as to the Ordinary part of the Apostolic Office, I prove as followeth.
§ 13. That Christ intended a setled Institution of such Disparity of Ministers as to the Ordinary part of the Apostolick Office, I prove as followeth.
1. Because having found a disparity before in the Jewish ⟨p. 19⟩