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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.
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.
§ 15. Because he suiteth his Governing Laws and Discipline much to what he found among the Jews. This is evident in Mat. 5. where he doth but vindicate the Law from the Pharisees abuse: And Mat. 18. 15. where he formeth his Discipline much to their Method. And many Learned men have proved that the Jews Baptized Proselytes before John and Christ Baptized. And they had the Ten Commandments before: And Selden and others show that they had a Prayer before very like the Lords Prayer. And Grotius showeth that they had Synagogues in every City, even to small numbers, like our Parish Churches or Chapels. And Christ submitted to the Rulers of the Synagogues for his own leave to Preach.
§ 15. Because he suiteth his Governing Laws and Discipline much to what he found among the Jews. This is evident in Mat. 5. where he doth but vindicate the Law from the Pharisees abuse: And