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A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease public worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1681
AN ANSWER TO Dean STILINGFLEETS, &c. › Chapter 8: What the National Church of England is?
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. He supposeth an agreement in the same Faith, and under the same Government and Discipline.
Answ. That's right: But what Government is it, Civil, or Ecclesiastical? The first is no essential part of a proper Church. If it be the later, is it one in specie or in individu• politico? Not the former; for a 100 Episcopal Churches in several Nations may have one species of Government, as many Kingdoms may have. It is therefore the later that is all my Question, which is the Church-Head?
He saith [As several Families make one Kingdom, so several lesser Churches make one National.
Answ. True, if that National Church have one Constitutive Head as a Family hath: It's no Family without a Pater or Mater Familias. And no Governed proper Church without Governors; and there is no Governor where there is no supreme in his place and kind: For inferiors have all their power from the supreme: There is no Universal supreme but God: but the King is subordinately the supreme in his Kingdom in respect to inferiors, and so it is in other Governed Societies.