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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.
§ 7. III. It hath National Laws which profess their subserviency to the Law of Christ, and the Nullity of all that is against it.
§ 8. IV. It maketh none Magistrates but professed Christians: No nor Burgesses and choosers of Magistrates.
§ 9. V. It hath Diocesans that are General Overseers of many particular Churches, as Successors to the Apostles and Evangelists in the ordinary parts of their Office, which I before proved to be Christs Institution.
§ 10. VI. It justly maketh Bishops Members of Parliament, it being unfit to make Laws for Religion without the Pastors notice and advice.
§ 11. VII. It justly giveth large maintenance and honours to the Superior Clergy, that they may be a Protection to the Inferior, and a relief to the poor, and keep up Religion from the contempt and scorn of Worldly men.