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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.
§ 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⟩Church, he offered not to repeal it, when he offered to gather all that Church to himself, as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings. Yea he sent the Lepers to the Priests and bid men hear them in Moses Chair; and owned the disparity.
§ 14. Because he formed a disparity himself, as is aforesaid between the Twelve Apostles and the Seventy, and that in some Conformity to the Jewish Church Policy. And tells his Apostles that they shall Judge the Twelve Tribes of Israel.