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A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…
A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1671
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 38
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I will show you your Argument in another case. Suppose that Usurpers should alter the form of Kingly Government, and set up themselves in another form, and should allow all the Independent Churches in the Land, but set over them Civil officers in every County of their own; and should make a Law, that none shall be a member of a Church that liveth not within five miles of the Meeting place. In this case, the Church is a Church in its own Constitution; and that it is confirmed to a Parochial circuit, or that it is under usurping Magistrates is an accidental thing, which doth not nullify it. And if you argue [If the Usurpers Commonwealth as such, be not to be communicated with or owned, then the Church which is part of it is not to be owned. Yes, as a Church, but not as a part of the Common-wealth.
I will shew you your Argument in another case. Suppose that Usurpers should alter the form of Kingly Government, and set up themselves in another form, and should allow all the Independent Churches in the Land, but set over them Civil officers in every County of their own; and should make a Law, that none shall be a member of a Church that liveth not within five miles of the Meeting place. In this case, the Church is a Church in its own Constitution; and that it is confirmed to a Parochial circuit, or that it is under usurping Magistrates is an accidental thing, which doth not nullifie it. And if you argue [If the Vsurpers Commonwealth as such, be not to be communicated with or owned, then the Church which is part of it is not to be owned. Yes, as a Church, but not as a part of the Common-wealth.
If Independent Churches were under the Turks Government, they may be parts of an Infidel and perhaps usurped Kingdom, and yet be true Churches and to be owned.
If Presbyterian Classical Churches be supposed sinful, and the Law said that all the Independent or particular Churches shall be under the several Classes, and be part of those Churches, the Churches will be true Churches nevertheless. For, 1. Perhaps most of them consent not to the Laws determination, but only forbear an open contradiction. 2. And in others of them the people may not consent though the Pastor do. 3. And if they do consent, and it be their sin, it will