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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.
§ 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.
Qu. But is not our first Reformation and our Canons and present Laws of Conformity, a sufficient means of Concord without any new Reformation?
Ans. 1. If so, why did King Edward the sixth require Bucer to write for more, which he hath done in his Scripta Anglicana? And why was the Reformatio Legum Eccles. (prefaced by John Fox) Written by men Commissioned by him?
2. Are the same Canons fit for Papists, Priests and Protestant Preachers? Dr. Burnet tells you that of nine thousand Parish Priests, (besides all others ordained) there did not much above eight hundred take the Reforming Oaths to keep their livings, so that there were above eight thousand Papists Parish Priests in our Reformed Church; unless that Oath made them all true Protestants And what wonder if these were excused from Preaching, and forbidden to Preach till they were further licensed. But shall the best Church in the World, called the Stupor Mundi, be all forbidden therefore after Ordination till Licensed to Preach or Expound any Doctrine or matter in the Church or elsewhere, but barely to Read.