A26975:87
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
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.
§ 7. Though Moses Law, as such, bind not us, nor any, further than Christ hath put it into his Law, and many things in their Policy, are unsuitable to our times and places, and more in their way of Worship; yet the true nature of such a National Church as Christ did institute, must be known by knowing what the Jews Church was as National, and how far Christ would have continued that form of Government, and what change it was that he was for.
§ 8. 1. Christ would not have the Jewish Nation to retain their peculiarity as distinct from the Catholic Church, for he came to call the Gentile World.
§ 8. 1. Christ would not have the Jewish Nation to retain their peculiarity as distinct from the Catholick Church, for he came to call the Gentile World.
2. He intended not to make Jerusalem the Seat of a Regent ⟨p. 4⟩Church over the rest of the World, as it then was over the Jews; for he knew that it was to be destroyed.