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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.
II. The Diseases and concerns of the Body are so abstruse, that if among one thousand that practise Physic there be ten that do not kill any of their Patients, they escape well that escape their Hands: All the Neighbours about us hurt us not, because we trust them not: But Physicians kill far more than Enemies.
II. The Diseases and concerns of the Body are so abstruse, that if among one thousand that practise Physick there be ten that do not kill any of their Patients, they escape well that escape their Hands: All the Neighbours about us hurt us not, because we trust them not: But Physicions kill far more than Enemies.
III. And I would it were not so with Politicians, who will be the determiners of the affairs of Kingdoms and Churches: where an error may be pernicious to the Society and Nation. The best Politician that ever I knew was wont to lament, that Lawyers and Divines usually studied what the Law of the Land saith, and what Gods Law saith, and never well studied what a Law in genere is, what Government and the several Causes of it are, and being Ignorant in Political Doctrine, understand not the words or things that they talk of: And all through uncapableness and sloth.
§ 8. How commonly do such dispute the foresaid case, whether the Prince or People be the chief, without distinguishing Majority and Meliority? How oft do they speak of their different Right, without distinguishing, separate or distinct from opposite? How oft do they falsely tell us that the People are the Fountain of Power? And how oft do they tell us that Government (Monarchical or Aristocratical) are a mere Trust, and Rulers only the Peoples Trustees, without distinguishing what is of God in it, and what is of man, and what trust God committeth to them, and what men commit? And what power people have by Nature, and what by Contract.