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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.
§ 8. They uncharitably and very hurtfully mistake, 1. Who say that Popery essentially began when God and Constantine exalted the Bishops, and Pride in many abused that mercy. 2. And they that say it essentially began when Image-worship began. 3. And they that date it from the assumed Name of Universal Bishop, or Head of the Universal Church (which Leo I. assumed and Phocas gave Boniface) as long as they meant not the Universal Church on all the Earth, but only the Universal in the Empire, which was long meant.
§ 9. Now among all temptations to Popery, I never found any of difficult weight but these.
I. The Apostolical Office continueth in its ordinary continued Part and Work. But Universal Church Government is an ordinary continued Part and Work of the Apostolic Office. Ergo Universal Church-Government (continueth) (that is, de jure divino.)
I. The Apostolical Office continueth in its ordinary continued Part and Work. But Universal Church Government is an ordinary continued Part and Work of the Apostolick Office. Ergo Universal Church-Government (continueth) (that is, de jure divino.)