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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.
§ 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?
§ 9. Councils consist of the Subjects of many Foreign Princes; and usually their Princes choose who shall go: And they that are near the place of meeting will be the most: And none can come against their Princes wills: And few Bishops will disobey their Lords that send them, or that they live under: And must such Subjects of Papists, Turks, Infidels, Heathens, be Masters of England, of King and People, and of all the Religion in the World?
§ 9. Councils consist of the Subjects of many Foreign Princes; and usually their Princes chuse who shall go: And they that are near the place of meeting will be the most: And none can come against their Princes wills: And few Bishops will disobey their Lords that send them, or that they live under: And must such Subjects of Papists, Turks, Infidels, Heathens, be Masters of England, of King and People, and of all the Religion in the World?