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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…
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XIII. The too loose trial of the Ordained, and their necessary qualification much causeth this.
XIII. The too loose tryal of the Ordained, and their necessary qualification much causeth this.
XIV. And the corruption of the Universities is the Seminary and Nursery of our sins and dangers.
XV. Many dangerous Oaths or Covenants and Professions are hurtfully imposed on the Ministers and People, by which Guilt and Divisions are increased.
XVI. And to complete our dangers, an enmity or deep jealousy is settled between the Public Priests, and a great part of the most seriously Religious People of the Land. This distance hath long been causing, and the causes are still continued. The badness of Priests in the time of Popery, and their contemptible insufficiency in the beginning of the Reformation tempted many zealous Protestants to too hard thoughts of the generality of them. No Party hath been faultless. It fell out that the Exiles in Germany, who were most zealous in Religion against Popery and all ungodliness, followed Geneva, and set themselves too much against Bishops and our Liturgy, that they might not partake of the sins of Popery. But Dr. Ri Cox that had been K. Edw. 6. Tutor, and had a great hand in making our Liturgy, drew Horn and others to him, and forced our Liturgy on them at Frankford, and prevailing against them, drove them to Geneva, thinking that Reformation should receive as much of the ancient Forms and Ceremonies, as were not true Popery, nor forbidden of God, that the Papists might not challenge us as Novelists.