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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
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.
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 ⟨p. 94⟩not nullify the particular Church; being but an unwarrantable Accident.
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 ⟨p. 94⟩not nullifie the particular Church; being but an unwarrantable Accident.
If Universities were as unlawful as many Separatists judge them, yet Dr. Goodwins Church, e. g. in Oxford might have been part of the University, and yet a true Church, and to be disowned as part of the University, and yet not as a Church.
If Vniversities were as unlawful as many Separatists judge them, yet Dr. Goodwins Church, e. g. in Oxford might have been part of the University, and yet a true Church, and to be disowned as part of the University, and yet not as a Church.