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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.
§ 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.
§ 12. VIII. The King is justly the donor of such honours and great revenues.
§ 13. IX. The Parish Ministers according to the true Legal Reformed Church of England, are acknowledged true Pastors, as to all the essentials of the Pastoral Office (Word, Sacraments, Keys, Discipline and Ordinations.)
§ 13. IX. The Parish Ministers according to the true Legal Reformed Church of Englaend, are acknowledged true Pastors, as to all the essentials of the Pastoral Office (Word, Sacraments, Keys, Discipline and Ordinations.)