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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.
§ 20. IX. It being certain then that the Apostles did not, as an Aristocratical Supreme power over the Universal Church, Exercise Legislation, Judgment and Execution, much less by any ordinary continued power, it followeth that they have no Successors that have such power; and all Government being contained in these three parts, there is de Jure no Universal Governor.
§ 20. IX. It being certain then that the Apostles did not, as an Aristocratical Supreme power over the Universal Church, Exercise Legislation, Judgment and Execution, much less by any ordinary continued power, it followeth that they have no Successors that have such power; and all Government being contained in these three parts, there is de Jure no Universal Governour.
§ 21. X. The power of Moses and Aaron were of equal extent, and both of Divine Institution; but Aaron was under Moses Government: And Christ gave the Twelve and Seventy at first no larger Provinces or Power: And when he added more and sent them to the Gentiles, he commanded every Soul to be subject to the Princes power as of God: Therefore their power in the Empire was limited and subject to the Imperial Government, ⟨p. 47⟩and so in other Lands: They were bound to fear God and Honour the King. They might by Doctoral and Nunciative Authority persuade Emperors, and deliver Gods Commands, and so still may any ordinary Teacher, but not by Imperant, Judicial and Executive power Govern them, unless by self-subjecting they make them their Governors as Pupils do their Tutors and Patients their Physicians. Yea they could make no Man a Christian but by Persuasion to voluntary consent; and till they were Christians, they could not Govern them as Christians: And they were not Governors of the World but Monitors, and Persuaders.
§ 21. X. The power of Moses and Aaron were of equal extent, and both of Divine Institution; but Aaron was under Moses Government: And Christ gave the Twelve and Seventy at first no larger Provinces or Power: And when he added more and sent them to the Gentiles, he commanded every Soul to be subject to the Princes power as of God: Therefore their power in the Empire was limited and subject to the Imperial Government,