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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.
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.)
§ 6. Of these there are three sorts of Papists: 1. Some place it in the Pope alone: 2. Some in the Pope and a General Council or Clergy agreeing: 3. And some in a General Council, the Pope being only Principium Unitatis, as having the primam sedem, privileged ordinarily to call them, and moderate. And in the Intervals of such Councils, in an Aristocratical College of all the Bishops in the World, governing per literas formatas: This last as most irrational I have at large confuted: It is the other two that deserve further confutation.
§ 6. Of these there are three sorts of Papists: 1. Some place it in the Pope alone: 2. Some in the Pope and a General Council or Clergy agreeing: 3. And some in a General Council, the Pope being only Principium Unitatis, as having the primam sedem, priviledged ordinarily to call them, and moderate. And in the Intervals of such Councils, in an Aristocratical Colledge of all the Bishops in the World, governing per literas formatas: This last as most irrational I have at large confuted: It is the other two that deserve further confutation.
§ 7. And seeing it is the summa Potestas, or Sovereignty that is the unifying and denominating Form of a Political Society, it clearly followeth that those that now go under the name of Papists or Roman Catholics, are indeed of three distinct sort of Churches, and not as they pretend of One. But names not understood delude the ignorant, saying it is but One Church, maketh it not One.