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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 14: Whether the National Church of England be at the present of a sound Constitution. And w…
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Chap. XIV. Whether the National Church of England be at the present of a sound Constitution. And what is necessary to its Welfare, Safety, Reformation and Peace.
§ 1. TO tell what particulars need Reformation, I have done so oft to the great displeasure of the guilty, that I have no encouragement to offend them more, by doing it again.
§ 2. And to give the true History of original, causes, and progress of our corruptions, disorders and divisions, will not be endured by them that still justify their own and Predecessors sin, and can see no fault in any but those that they first make and then call their adversaries. I have found that the most notorious matters of fact will be denied furiously by such men, even what ⟨p. 59⟩hath been said and done in their presence and mine, before a multitude of Witnesses, Bishops, Doctors and divers others: Yea things said and done in Parliaments and Armies and publicly notified, are by such men contradicted with rage. Therefore I will not here tell the World, either what or who have been the causes of our sufferings and dangers; having long purposed to have done it in a Treatise by it self, called [REPENT, O ENGLAND] and therein I. To declare my own Repentance. II. To tell those called Presbyterians what they must Repent of. III. And those called Separatists. IV. And those called Antinomians. V. And those called Prelatical, especially the Ruling part. But God seemeth to deny me time for that intended Work.