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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.
§ 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.
§ 4. 4. To be all for the publick Worshiping 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.
§ 5. 5. To take the Sacred Scripture for the Word of God, and the sufficient Rule of Divine Faith and Holy living; And to profess an explicit Belief of the Creed as it was transmitted to us from the Apostolic Churches, and to take the Lords Prayer for the summary rule of our desires and hopes; and the Decalogue as owned and expounded by Christ, for the summary rule of our Obedience, with the Sacraments instituted by him.
§ 5. 5. To take the Sacred Scripture for the Word of God, and the sufficent Rule of Divine Faith and Holy living; And to profess an explicite Belief of the Creed as it was transmitted to us from the Apostolick Churches, and to take the Lords Prayer for the summary rule of our desires and hopes; and the Decalogue as owned and expounded by Christ, for the summary rule of our Obedience, with the Sacraments instituted by him.
§ 6. 6. To profess Obedience to true Authority in Parents, Magistrates and Pastors and all true Governors, so far as they are empowered by God, and to obey God above all, and no men against him and his Laws. And Rulers to profess to obey God, and Rule as his Ministers for the Common welfare and to promote the obedience of Gods Laws.