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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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§ 35. But it must be a wise and godly King that must be the principal means to accomplish all this, if ever it be done; such a one that understandeth Gods Law and Interest and his own and Kingdoms real welfare, may do that by good Laws and Prudent Government, which shall be to parties of erroneous opinions, a powerful bias to incline their Judgments to go right: One man we may have more hope of making wise than of multitudes. I had rather have a uniting settlement by the choice of a wise Prince and Parliament, yea or of Diocesans of Wisdom, Piety and Peace, than by the choice of any of the extremes, whether Separatists, or the Laudian New Church men, that are for a Foreign Jurisdiction. But through Gods great mercy the most of the Godly able Nonconformists Ministers, falsely called Presbyterians, of my acquaintance, are so much for Truth and Peace and Concord, that they would rejoice to live under such Bishops, as were Nazianzene, Basil, Chrysostom, Austin, or such as Beadle, Usher, Downame, (tho an angry man) Jewel, Dr. Parker, Grindal, Pilkinton, Sandies, G. Abbot, Rob. Abbot, Hall, Carlton, Morton, Davenant, Brownrig and such like. And are most Episcopal Nonconformists, and would choose none but healing Terms.
§ 35. But it must be a wise and godly King that must be the principal means to accomplish all this, if ever it be done; such a one that understandeth Gods Law and Interest and his own and Kingdoms real welfare, may do that by good Laws and Prudent Government, which shall be to parties of erroneous opinions, a powerful byas to incline their Judgments to go right: One man we may have more hope of making wise than of multitudes. I had rather have a uniting settlement by the choice of a wise Prince and Parliament, yea or of Diocesanes of Wisdom, Piety and Peace, than by the choice of any of the extreams, whether Separatists, or the Laudian New Church men, that are for a Forreign Jurisdiction. But through Gods great mercy the most of the Godly able Nonconformists Ministers, falsly called Presbyterians, of my acquaintance, are so much for Truth and Peace and Concord, that they would rejoice to live under such Bishops, as were Nazianzene, Basil, Chrysostom, Austin, or such as Beadle, Usher, Downame, (tho an angry man) Jewel, Dr. Parker, Grindal, Pilkinton, Sandies, G. Abbot, Rob. Abbot, Hall, Carlton, Morton, Davenant, Brownrig and such like. And are most Episcopal Nonconformists, and would choose none but healing Terms.