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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 8: How far this Confederacy and Concord bindeth the Members of a National Church to Confor…
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.
A fancy hath been by one of late divulged, that it is a heinous crime to say that the King and People have a separate or separable interest; So far may rashness precipitate the ignorant: That King and Subjects have a distinct interest is past all doubt: That these interests ought not to be opposite or set against each other is also doubtless. And that they are divisible is doubtless; else they would never fall out about them. And that they are faultily divided: And no doubt but they may and must be divided Numerally and Notionally, so they be not opposite.
§ 3. What I say of Kings I must say of Parents and Pastors, and Tutors: When the Subjects are various and really divided Numerically, there the Accidents are divers and divided: For the Accidents cannot be the same and indivisible that are in various subjects. But the rights of Rulers and Subjects are diverse; ⟨p. 31⟩And the Persons or Subjects of these Rights are diverse and separate in sensu Physico: Therefore the Rights are diverse and Physically separate.
§ 3. What I say of Kings I must say of Parents and Pastors, and Tutors: When the Subjects are various and really divided Numerically, there the Accidents are divers and divided: For the Accidents cannot be the same and indivisible that are in various subjects. But the rights of Rulers and Subjects are diverse; ⟨p. 31⟩And the Persons or Subjects of these Rights are diverse and separate in sensu Physico: Therefore the Rights are diverse and Physically seperate.
§ 4. The Genus and fixed part of the Species being ordained by God himself, the mutable Form (Monarchy, Aristocracy and Mixed,) and the determination of the Person or Line is by men, and that is by mutual Consent and Contract.