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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Three and Fortieth accused Point.
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. In case the Bishops be Heretics, or intolerable Usurpers and no true Bishops, wanting the Essentials of a Qualification and a Call.
4. In case the Bishops be Hereticks, or intollerable Usurpers and no true Bishops, wanting the Essentials of a Qualification and a Call.
5. In case the Bishops impose any false Oath, Subscription, Covenant, or Profession, or any other Sin, as the Condition without which they will not Ordain, (which is the case of all the Papists Prelates;) their Ordination in these cases is not necessary.
6. We know that in such cases the Ministry faileth not, but there may be a true succession of Pastors, though regular Canonical Ordination be interrupted. For there is nothing necessary after Gods Law, which specifieth the Office by stated Institution, but only the determining who the Persons are that God would have in this Office: Which may be well known without Canonical Ordination, where that cannot lawfully be had. There are instances in the ancient Churches, that when some Elected to be Bishops, fled or hid themselves; the Bishops Ordained them absent, by writing, without imposition of hands.