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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 7: What is the Confederacy or Concord needful to a National Church.
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. Affirmatively. 1. A Baptismal Confederacy, to be all the true Subjects of one God, one Christ and Holy Ghost, against the Devil, World and Flesh.
§ 1. AFfirmatively. 1. A Baptismal Confederacy, to be all the true Subjects of one God, one Christ and Holy Ghost, against the Devil, World and Flesh.
§ 2. 2. A Consent to live as Christians in Love to one another; and to addict our selves to the good of one another, specially to the welfare of the whole Body, and to do as we would (justly) be done by.
§ 3. 3. To be all the Loyal subjects of one Christian Sovereigns Power.
§ 3. 3. To be all the Loyal subjects of one Christian Soveraigns Power.
§ 4. 4. To be all for the public Worshipping of God and our Redeemer in Christian Assemblies, guided and ruled by Christian Pastors (or Bishops) qualified and described by Christ in his Word the instituter of the Pastoral Office, and not of any new sort of humane Ministry, or uncapable persons that are wanting in any thing essential to the Office.