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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 9: That Christ hath Instituted no true Ecclesiastical Government in Man, of any larger ext…
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5. The Clergy not only took the advantage of the ignorance and viciousness of Princes, but cherished them herein, and told them Scripture and holy work, were for the Priests and not for Princes.
6. They debased and profaned the Order of Magistrates, falsely pretending, that their Office was but for the Body, &c. for worldly Peace, and the Office of Priests only was for the Soul.
6. They debased and prophaned the Order of Magistrates, falsly pretending, that their Office was but for the Body, &c. for worldly Peace, and the Office of Priests only was for the Soul.
7. They by degrees turned the Communion and Concord of several Foreign Churches and Nations, into one Government over all.
8. When the Roman Empire was broken into many Kingdoms, the National pretence of the Pope or Councils could reach but to some one of them; and so the Pope slightly pretended to all, and turned the Imperial Universality, into a Terrestrial Universality, and the Roman World into the whole World, or else they had fallen.