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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.
As 1. Whether there shall be One only or Two such General Ministers in one and the same Diocese or Province. Christ sent out his Preachers by two and two. Paul and Barnabas, and Paul, and Silas, and Barnabas and Mark went out by Couples. Peter and Paul were together at Rome.
As 1. Whether there shall be One only or Two such General Ministers in one and the same Diocess or Province. Christ sent out his Preachers by two and two. Paul and Barnabas, and Paul, and Silas, and Barnabas and Mark went out by Couples. Peter and Paul were together at Rome.
And Grotius and Dr. Hammond think that for the first times, till the Christian Jews and Gentiles became one Communion, the great Cities (Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, &c.) had each two Congregate Churches, and two Bishops (were it but for language sake.) And as I think the Jewish and Gentile Christian Ministers, during the time of Miraculous Gifts, (while no Christian Magistrates Ruled) were the two Witnesses mentioned in the Apocalypse, so I conjecture that Peter and Paul were the radical instances of them.
And when two join together it may take off envy from each.