A26975:91
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.
4. He intended not to continue the Law of Moses as such; nor its Ceremonious Worship; but only so much of it as was of the Law of Nature common to others; and so much of the Policy as by parity of cases and reason, is suited to others as well as to the Jews.
§ 9. But 1. He offered to be King over them as a holy National Kingdom-Church.
2. He accordingly appointed the number of Twelve and Seventy under him, as related to the Twelve Tribes, and to their great Council.
3. He sent these first to work upon them by Doctrine and Persuasion, his Kingdom being a Government of Love, Mercy and Free Grace, that would have none but Volunteers.
3. He sent these first to work upon them by Doctrine and Perswasion, his Kingdom being a Government of Love, Mercy and Free Grace, that would have none but Volunteers.