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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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§ 23. III. The Parishes must be known to the Pastors that take the Charge of them, and the three sorts of Inhabitants distinguished. 1. Those that are of another Church (as Papists &c.) or of no Church. 2. Those that are Catechumens and submit to be Catechized and Hear, 3. Those that are Communicants. And each Parish must have Ministers for number and quality suited to the number of Souls, and fit to know them and perform their undertaken Office.
§ 24. IV. The partial unrighteous Canons must be cast away.
§ 25. V. Nothing sinful or unnecessary to Ministry or Communion, must be imposed as necessary Terms, nor Godly able Ministers Silenced or Persecuted causelessly, that do more good than hurt.
§ 25. V. Nothing sinful or unnecessary to Ministry or Communion, must be imposed as necessary Terms, nor Godly able Ministers Silenced or Persecuted causelesly, that do more good than hurt.
§ 26. VI. They that Worship not God in all our Forms and Ceremonies, or that are too scrupulous, must be tolerated to Worship as they can by themselves, so be it, their Doctrine and Worship and Conversation, and Unpeaceableness be not intolerable.