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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.
§ 15. XI. All the Parish Churches are to distinguish Communicating Members from Non-communicating Inhabitants, and to refuse the scandalous and unconfirmed, not ready or desiring confirmation. And the Offices of Absolution and Burial are fitted to the Faithful, were Discipline executed.
16. XII. Yet our Law for Dissenters Assemblies, acknowledgeth them all true Members of the Church of England, who agree in the essentials, notwithstanding their dissent in divers lesser things (as no doubt they are.)
§ 17. XIII. We use one and the same Translation of Scripture, and usually the same version of Psalms, Time, Place, Utensils, so far as allowed.
All these are laudable parts of the Constitution of a National Church.