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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.
2. There are no Articles of Universal Agreement in all the Churches on Earth, necessary, but what Christ hath made such. And to pretend to make such, and Usurp his Prerogative, is a sin that we must not agree with.
3. The vanity of their talk of true Universal Councils I have oft at large detected.
4. We grant submission to the true power of National Governors and Councils, but Universal we know not.
5. Just National Laws must be obeyed: But Conciliar Canons of Concord by Equals, bind us not to Agreement, when mistake maketh them against the common Good and Ends of Concord. Nor do Mens Laws or Agreements bind us to any thing against the Laws of God.