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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 13: What are the dangerous Diseases of a National Church.
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.
§ 17. And yet worse is it, when there is small hope of a better when the bad Priest is dead; but the corrupt Fountain is still sending forth polluted Streams; and Money and Friendship choose the Man: And when the worst Man that hath but Money enough to buy a Patronage shall have the choice of a Pastor for Mens Souls.
§ 17. And yet worse is it, when there is small hope of a better when the bad Priest is dead; but the corrupt Fountain is still sending forth polluted Streams; and Money and Friendship chuse the Man: And when the worst Man that hath but Money enough to buy a Patronage shall have the choice of a Pastor for Mens Souls.
§ 18. And yet worse will it go, when the Keys, which are the most peculiar part of the Privilege and Office of the Pastors, shall be exercised by Lay Civilians, in the Bishops name, without his judging or consent. And Government by the Word is managed by such Men, in the manner that Secular Affairs are managed, without due reverence to holy things.
§ 18. And yet worse will it go, when the Keys, which are the most peculiar part of the Priviledge and Office of the Pastors, shall be exercised by Lay Civilians, in the Bishops name, without his judging or consent. And Government by the Word is managed by such Men, in the manner that Secular Affairs are managed, without due reverence to holy things.
§ 19. And worst of all is it, when the Body of the Nation is by such means brought to so much ignorance and sinfulness, that they would have it so; And are glad to have so much countenance to their malignity and sin; and follow their malicious Military Leaders.