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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.
And whereas they that yet delay to answer my English Nonconformity Stated, take up usually with the reproaching one question in it, what Church the 800 were of, that one Doctor Printeth that he cured of the French Pox, should I tell them of the quality and far greater number of persons that Doctor Lower hath thrice together affirmed to have that Disease, that with the commoner Whoredom, Drunkenness, Swearing, Self-damning, scorning Godliness, yea and Gods Word it self, may warrant a man that hath any love to the Church and Souls, to entreat the Curates though they be not Pastors to bethink them, 1. Whether they know who are the Members of their Churches?
And whereas they that yet delay to answer my English Nonconformity Stated, take up usually with the reproaching one question in it, what Church the 800 were of, that one Doctor Printeth that he cured of the French Pox, should I tell them of the quality and far greater number of persons that Doctor Lower hath thrice together affirmed to have that Disease, that with the commoner Whoredom, Drunkenness, Swearing, Self-damning, scorning Godliness, yea and Gods Word it self, may warrant a man that hath any love to the Church and Souls, to intreate the Curates though they be not Pastors to bethink them, 1. Whether they know who are the Members of their Churches?
2. Whether it be they or the Bishop that must know them personally?
3. If all that dwell in the Parish, are not all the Papists, Atheists, Hobbists, Deboisht and Sectaries of their Churches?