A26975:347
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.
§ 14. III. The number of Twelve and Seventy two were a National Form fitted to the Jewish State, and not an Universal: And this National Form went before that part of the Apostles Work and Power, which was to be Universal or Indefinite.
§ 15. IV. The Apostles made no Universal Laws of their own, but only promulgated the Laws of Christ; which by his Word and Spirit he taught them: And to that end, he promised and gave them his Spirit to lead them into all Truth, and bring all to their remembrance; and they were sent to all Nations (indefinitely) to Convert them and Baptize them, and to teach them to observe all things that Christ had commanded them.
The Crier is not the Law-maker, though he proclaim the Law.
The Cryer is not the Law-maker, though he proclaim the Law.
The Obligations to Infant-baptism and the Lords day, alleged by some as Apostolical Laws, are from Christ himself (as I have proved elsewhere at large) the Apostles being Authorized Witnesses and Promulgators. And had they done it by the extraordinary promised Spirit, it had so been Christs own Law-giving; no other having that promise of the Spirit to make a new Word of God, or Universal Law, by bringing all his Commands to remembrance, and leading them into all Truth.