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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.
The same I say of true Pastors of the Churches: God hath specified their Office, tho' the People may circumstantiate it.
§ 10. Princes having the Power of Legislation even about the undetermined circumstances of Religion, as well as things secular, and also to enforce Obedience to God's Laws, all Subjects are bound to obey them herein; yea tho' they so far mistake as to choose the circumstances that might have been better chosen, if they command not sin: For who doth any thing so well but it might have been done better? For instance, should they choose a tolerable, but less perfect Version and Metre of Psalms, or Translation of Scripture, or form of Public Worship, or Time, Place, Utensils, Ministers, &c. Concord in those otherwise not the best, may be better and a greater duty, than for better to be ⟨p. 35⟩singular, disobedient and dividers, or the encouragers of other mens singularity and divisions.
§ 10. Princes having the Power of Legislation even about the undetermined circumstances of Religion, as well as things secular, and also to enforce Obedience to God's Laws, all Subjects are bound to obey them herein; yea tho' they so far mistake as to chuse the circumstances that might have been better chosen, if they command not sin: For who doth any thing so well but it might have been done better? For instance, should they chuse a tolerable, but less perfect Version and Meeter of Psalms, or Translation of Scripture, or form of Publick Worship, or Time, Place, Utensils, Ministers, &c. Concord in those otherwise not the best, may be better and a greater duty, than for better to be ⟨p. 35⟩singular, disobedient and dividers, or the encouragers of other mens singularity and divisions.