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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.
§ 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.
18. XIV. To which I may add that we all renounce all humane Universal and Foreign Jurisdiction, Civil and Ecclesiastical: And all Traditions that pretend to be supplemental and perfecting to the Scripture; and all Infallibility of Popes and Councils.
18. XIV. To which I may add that we all renounce all humane Universal and Forreign Jurisdiction, Civil and Ecclesiastical: And all Traditions that pretend to be supplemental and perfecting to the Scripture; and all Infallibility of Popes and Councils.
None of this therefore needeth a Reformation. But what then doth?