A26975:361

Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…

Name: Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Author: Richard Baxter

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 ...

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691

[9], 72 p. · 30k words · Wing B1329 · ESTC R13726

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Chapter 10: Whether an Universal Church-Government be of Apostolic Succession in the continued par…Chapter 10: Whether an Universal Church-Government be of Apostolick Succession in the continued par…

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§ 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.

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§ 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.

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Ans. 1. If they be not Governors but Equals, we have as much power to propose Articles of Agreement to them, as they to us.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Printer

T. Snowden

Bookseller

Thomas Parkhurst

Year

1691

Size

[9], 72 p.

Words

29,710

Catalogue

Wing B1329 · ESTC R13726

Text

EEBO-TCP A26975

Passages

529

Sections

Title page

Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…

Chap. XI. Whether a National Church Sovereignty infer the need or lawfulness of a Humane Universal Church Sovereignty.

Chap. XI. Whether a National Church Soveraignty infer the need or lawfulness of a Humane Universal Church Soveraignty.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Chap. XI. Whether a National Church Sovereignty infer the need or lawfulness of a Humane Universal Church Sovereignty.

Chap. XI. Whether a National Church Soveraignty infer the need or lawfulness of a Humane Universal Church Soveraignty.

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