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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…
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.
§ 4. I. I begin with that which is Good and Laudable: Not only to avoid offence by unprofitable finding faults, but especially to rectify those prejudiced censures that call Good Evil, and run away from Gods Mercies under the false name of Sin. This hath had no small hand in our Divisions, ever since the troubles at Frank-ford and our first Reformation. The Adversaries of Popery did lay more of the personal Crimes of the Papists Bishops and Priests (and Monks too) on the Office and Order than they should have done.
§ 4. I. I begin with that which is Good and Laudable: Not only to avoid offence by unprofitable finding faults, but especially to rectifie those prejudiced censures that call Good Evil, and run away from Gods Mercies under the false name of Sin. This hath had no small hand in our Divisions, ever since the troubles at Frank-ford and our first Reformation. The Adversaries of Popery did lay more of the personal Crimes of the Papists Bishops and Priests (and Monks too) on the Office and Order than they should have done.
§ 5. I. The National Church of England is rightly constituted under one Supreme Royal Government as the Unifying Head, as I have proved.
§ 6. II. It is duly constituted of professed Baptized Christians, and Churches as the subject matter.
§ 6. II. It is duely constituted of professed Baptized Christians, and Churches as the subject matter.