A26975:97
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.
6. He intended to set up his Government in Power by Christian Princes, as soon as his Word and Providence had ripened the Church for it.
§ 10. I shall prove all this in the next Chapter, when I have told you first, that as the Papal Party hath been set up in their Usurpation (Universal and National) for want of understanding Christ's Institution of Kingdom-Churches; so the separating and dividing part of the Nonconformists have by this oversight, run into many hurtful Errors, and unpeaceable and unjustifiable ways.
§ 10. I shall prove all this in the next Chapter, when I have told you first, that as the Papal Party hath been set up in their Usurpation (Universal and National) for want of understanding Christ's Institution of Kingdom-Churches; so the separating and dividing part of the Nonconformists have by this oversight, run into many hurtful Errours, and unpeaceable and unjustifiable ways.
1. How much the very name of a National Church is distasted by very many zealous persons through mere ignorance, is too commonly known.
1. How much the very name of a National Church is distasted by very many zealous persons through meer ignorance, is too commonly known.