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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
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.
§ 5. This is considerable, 1. Quoad Rationem Rei; 2. And quoad Rationem Nominis.
1. As to the Thing, it is such a Sovereignty feigned, whether in a Monarchy, Aristocracy, or any mixed or other Form, as being an Usurpation of Christ's Office, and making a Vice-Christ, which is an Antichrist.
1. As to the Thing, it is such a Soveraignty feigned, whether in a Monarchy, Aristocracy, or any mixt or other Form, as being an Usurpation of Christ's Office, and making a Vice-Christ, which is an Antichrist.
2. As to the Name, it is called Popery from them that place this Sovereignty in the Roman Pope (though it would be the same thing, if they placed it in the Bishop of Constantinople.)
2. As to the Name, it is called Popery from them that place this Soveraignty in the Roman Pope (though it would be the same thing, if they placed it in the Bishop of Constantinople.)