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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.
§ 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.
§ 4. The Genus and fixed part of the Species being ordained by God himself, the mutable Form (Monarchy, Aristocracy and Mixt,) and the determination of the Person or Line is by men, and that is by mutual Consent and Contract.
None can force a man to be King, or Pastor against his Will. And Government is a state of great care and great danger to Soul and Body: And will any man in his Wits undertake it without security to his own interest? The Kings distinct and separate interest, is 1. His own Life, to be secured against Treason. 2. His Honour as Gods chief Officer, and in a sort representer, which is therefore Gods own Honour in him. This is made distinct and Physically separate (tho not opposite) in the Fifth Commandment. And the doubt whether that Commandment be part of the first or second Table, or rather partly of each as the Cardo utrinsque, doth make it a hard question, what interest is the highest: Of which Michael Hudson hath subtly treated.
None can force a man to be King, or Pastor against his Will. And Government is a state of great care and great danger to Soul and Body: And will any man in his Wits undertake it without security to his own interest? The Kings distinct and separate interest, is 1. His own Life, to be secured against Treason. 2. His Honour as Gods chief Officer, and in a sort representer, which is therefore Gods own Honour in him. This is made distinct and Physically separate (tho not opposite) in the Fifth Commandment. And the doubt whether that Commandement be part of the first or second Table, or rather partly of each as the Cardo utrinsque, doth make it a hard question, what interest is the highest: Of which Michael Hudson hath subtilly treated.