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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 39
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.
R. B. The same fallacy is so palpable that a small measure of reason may discern it. 1. It is false that he is in that Office [But a Servant] The truth is,1 the Law maketh him not a servant at all, but only an Ecclesiastical Subject. But if you had said, He is but a subject, it had not been true, if [But] be exclusive of his other Pastoral Relation. For he is by the Law, the Priest, the Teacher, the Rector of that Parish Church in subordination to the Bishop.
- 1Whether a Parish Minister be but a servant to the Diocesan.Whether a Parish Minister be but a servant to the Diocesane.
2. But whatever he be by the Law of the Land, or by the Bishops will, the faithful Ministers in Parish Churches are by Christs own Commission, the true Pastors of the flocks; having all things essential to that Relation.
3. But deceive not your Reader by intimating, that I speak of a Parochial Minister as Parochial, (not quâ but qui:) For Parish Bounds are but Accidents of the Churches: It is Christian Churches as such, though Parochial or so ⟨p. 97⟩bounded, that I speak of. A Christian Pastor with his Christian flock (e. g. Mr. Gataker, Mr. Marshall, Dr. Stoughton, Dr. Seaman, Mr. Sedgwick, Dr. Gouge and such like) do constitute a true Christian Church, though in Parish bounds. And as such Pastors they are the Ministers of Christ, and not servants to Diocesans: And their subordination to Diocesans by the Law is but accidental to their Pastoral office.