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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.
And Kings and States are as much obliged to it as Bishops: But they are not on that pretence to make one Universal King or Senate, to be a Sovereign Power to them and all the Earth or Church: But only by Diets or Confederacies to join their Powers and Endeavours to so good an End: And so is it with Bishops and Churches.
And Kings and States are as much obliged to it as Bishops: But they are not on that pretence to make one Universal King or Senate, to be a Soveraign Power to them and all the Earth or Church: But only by Diets or Confederacies to join their Powers and Endeavours to so good an End: And so is it with Bishops and Churches.
§ 23. If they say, That it is Union and Concord with the Pope or Rome, or their Councils that we are bound to, let them but renounce their pretence to Government of all, and we shall easily decide the other difference: If we must not Unite to them as Governors, but as Brethren, they are as much bound to Love and Union with us, as we with them. And Christ is sufficient to be the Centre of Union to the whole Body, and hath made them the sufficient and only Laws of Universal Concord among themselves.
§ 23. If they say, That it is Union and Concord with the Pope or Rome, or their Councils that we are bound to, let them but renounce their pretence to Government of all, and we shall easily decide the other difference: If we must not Unite to them as Governors, but as Brethren, they are as much bound to Love and Union with us, as we with them. And Christ is sufficient to be the Center of Union to the whole Body, and hath made them the sufficient and only Laws of Universal Concord among themselves.
§ 24. Obj. To be obliged by Gods Law to Concord, and to have Councils and Bishops determine in what we must agree, inferreth our Duty to agree in those Points which cometh to all one as Government by them.