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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.
7. Yea, we know that if in any one Church or Nation, the succession were totally interrupted, for many years, God ⟨p. 152⟩hath left means sufficient to restore it. 1. His Word describeth the Office, and giveth the Authority and obligation to the Person when determined of. 2. That Determination may be made, 1. By the due Qualification of the Person: 2. The inviting Necessities of the People and opportunity. 3. Mutual Consent; and without these the Ordination and Mission of a Bishop is vain.
8. The Church of Rome more needeth this Doctrine than the Protestants: For it is notoriously certain, that regular Succession hath failed oft and long in the Papacy, and consequently in its Clergy. 1. There is no more notorious interruption than by the utter incapacity of the Unqualified: And such have been those that were Children or declared Sots, Beasts, Simonists, filthy Lechers, Heretics, Infidels, Schismatics, by General Council, and the most Papal Historians. Their Succession now is from Eugenius the 4th. deposed as an Heretic by a General Council.
8. The Church of Rome more needeth this Doctrine than the Protestants: For it is notoriously certain, that regular Succession hath failed oft and long in the Papacy, and consequently in its Clergy. 1. There is no more notorious interruption than by the utter incapacity of the Unqualified: And such have been those that were Children or declared Sots, Beasts, Simonists, filthy Lechers, Hereticks, Infidels, Schismaticks, by General Council, and the most Papal Historians. Their Succession now is from Eugenius the 4th. deposed as an Heretick by a General Council.