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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
Chapter 12: The Three other Reasons for Popery answered briefly.
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.
§ 7. How few Bishops or Church Doctors are for Learning 1equal to Boethius, Joh. Picus, Francis. Picus, Erasmus, Hutten, Goldastus, Freherus, Pistorius, Faber, Stephanus, (Father and Son,) Mornay, Lord Du Plessis, Mich. Hospitalius, Thuanus, the two Scaliger's, Salmasius, Grotius, Sarravius, Justellus, and many other Lay-men? And are Kings and Magistrates uncapable of Wisdom?
§ 7. How few Bishops or Church Doctors are for Learning 1equal to Boetius, Joh. Picus, Francis. Picus, Erasmus, Hutten, Goldastus, Freherus, Pistorius, Faber, Stephanus, (Father and Son,) Mornay, Lord Du Plessis, Mich. Hospitalius, Thuanus, the two Scaliger's, Salmasius, Grotius, Sarravius, Justellus, and many other Lay-men? And are Kings and Magistrates uncapable of Wisdom?
- 1The Reader must note that by mistake § 7. and to the end of the Chapter this is misplaced, and is the end of the Ixth. Chapter.The Reader must note that by mistake § 7. and to the end of the Chapter this is misplaced, and is the end of the IXth. Chapter.
§ 8. How vast is the difference between Governing one Kingdom, and Governing all the World? Do I need to aggravate it? And is not one King with Wise Judges, and Justices, as capable of Governing one Kingdom, as an Utopian College of Bishops (that some dream of,) or a Pope (and Cardinals) of Governing all the World. Can such ignorant, vicious Monsters as Councils have condemned for the most odious Wickedness and Heresy, better Rule at Abyssinia, Armenia, or the Antipodes, than a Good King can Rule in England?
§ 8. How vast is the difference between Governing one Kingdom, and Governing all the World? Do I need to aggravate it? And is not one King with Wise Judges, and Justices, as capable of Governing one Kingdom, as an Utopian College of Bishops (that some dream of,) or a Pope (and Cardinals) of Governing all the World. Can such ignorant, vicious Monsters as Councils have condemned for the most odious Wickedness and Heresie, better Rule at Abassia, Armenia, or the Antipodes, than a Good King can Rule in England?