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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.
§ 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.)
II. The Superiority of one National Church Government is Jure Divino. Ergo, so is the Superiority of an Universal Church Government.
III. The Roman Policy seemeth greatly advantageous for the Preservation, Honour and Propagation of Christianity in the World, and hath much upheld it.