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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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And the differing manner of the Religious Devotions of these two parties, maketh the distance seem remediless, if some Moderate Peace-makers prove not the Cement. One sort are all for praying by habit, called extempore; as Judges, Parliament and Lawyers speak their minds; and say that Forms and Liturgies daily repeated are usually said without life or fervency, as Boys say an Oration, and little move men. The other are for the same Liturgy and Words, and too many deride all other praying: Whereas sober unprejudiced men can make a serious use of both.
But thus a Clergy modelled at the entrance of King Charles the second into a set opposition to the way of the zealously Religious People called Puritans (specially by the interest and wrath of a few hot Doctors after made Bishops,) are taken by the said people for the Captains of Profaneness.
But thus a Clergy modelled at the entrance of King Charles the second into a set opposition to the way of the zealously Religious People called Puritans (specially by the interest and wrath of a few hot Doctors after made Bishops,) are taken by the said people for the Captains of Prophaneness.
§ 20. Having seen what our Diseases are, it is easy to know what must be the cure: But so hard to accomplish it, that I must name the remedies with despair, unless the Almighty God will do it by means yet quite beyond our prospect, yea to cure any one of all these Maladies requireth a power more than Mans.