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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.
§ 27. VII. The Keys must be exercised only by the Clergy: ⟨p. 67⟩And if the Chancellors or Civilians Courts be kept up, they must be the Kings Magistrates, and use only such power as Magistrates may use.
§ 28. VIII. Those that by the Laws are to be excluded from the Communion of the Churches (public and tolerated) should not have the power of choosing Incumbents: Nor those that exclude themselves. Nor should those Patrons that choose the Incumbent that shall have the Place and Tithes, hinder any person from choosing to whom he will voluntarily trust the peculiar Pastoral care of his own Soul; Nor should men be hindered from the public or tolerated Ministry of such as they so choose.
§ 28. VIII. Those that by the Laws are to be excluded from the Communion of the Churches (publick and tolerated) should not have the power of choosing Incumbents: Nor those that exclude themselves. Nor should those Patrons that choose the Incumbent that shall have the Place and Tythes, hinder any person from choosing to whom he will voluntarily trust the peculiar Pastoral care of his own Soul; Nor should men be hindered from the publick or tolerated Ministry of such as they so choose.
§ 29. IX. Ordinations should be made after sufficient trial of the Learning and Abilities of the Ordained, in Preaching and Praying, as well as upon a full testimony of his Pious and Upright Conversation, and no Institution to a Title granted till the Parishioners have leave, warning and time, to know the man, and show their acceptance or dissent, and be impartially heard.
§ 29. IX. Ordinations should be made after sufficient tryal of the Learning and Abilities of the Ordained, in Preaching and Praying, as well as upon a full testimony of his Pious and Upright Conversation, and no Institution to a Title granted till the Parishioners have leave, warning and time, to know the man, and shew their acceptance or dissent, and be impartially heard.