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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
2. The Powers that violently took down the Bishops, were the Secular Powers: None else could use violence. And it were a strange Oath for a Man to swear that he would never obey the Secular Powers if they took down the Bishops, when the Holy Ghost would have us obey Heathen Persecutors.
3. If it were so great a Sin to obey those Powers, I conceive it must be so to the Laity as well as the Ministry: And I knew but few of the Episcopal Gentry or others called to it, that did refuse to take the Engagement to be true and faithful to that Power, when the Presbyters here accused durst not take it.
4. Most Presbyters that I know do perform all Ecclesiastical Matters upon supposition of a Divine Direction, and not upon the Command of Humane Powers.
Ad 9m. The Ordination of mere Presbyters is not null, and the Presbyters so ordained now in England are true Presbyters, as I am ready to maintain. But wait for the Accuser's proof of the nullity.
Ad 9m. The Ordination of meer Presbyters is not null, and the Presbyters so ordained now in England are true Presbyters, as I am ready to maintain. But wait for the Accuser's proof of the nullity.