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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 6: Who must be the Lay-Members of National Churches.
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.
Chap. VI. Who must be the Lay-Members of National Churches.
§ 1. Infidels and Heathens may be free Members of a Kingdom as a Kingdom, and in a Kingdom as Christians may be tolerated when they cannot be cured; And may be used as Inferior Officers in such secular affairs as they are capable of. But a Christian Kingdom and Church as such, consisteth of no Denizens, Burgesses or men free and empowered in ⟨p. 26⟩matters of Religion, but only such as are Baptized or openly professed Christians (and their Children) and are not proved to have nullified that profession by Heresy or such sin as rendereth their profession incredible and invalid. And all these Baptized Visible Christians must be taken for such Members.
§ 1. INfidels and Heathens may be free Members of a Kingdom as a Kingdom, and in a Kingdom as Christians may be tolerated when they cannot be cured; And may be used as Inferior Officers in such secular affairs as they are capable of. But a Christian Kingdom and Church as such, consisteth of no Denisons, Burgesses or men free and empowered in ⟨p. 26⟩matters of Religion, but only such as are Baptized or openly professed Christians (and their Children) and are not proved to have nullified that profession by Heresie or such sin as rendreth their profession incredible and invalid. And all these Baptized Visible Christians must be taken for such Members.