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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. Is not Government essential to a Governed Church? Fixed Government to a fixed Church, and transient temporary Government to an answerable Church? Deny this and few will follow you.
§. 9. He adds, [Which I will prove to be false from Mr. B. himself. He asserts that there is one Catholic visible Church, and that all particular Churches headed by their particular Bishops or Pastors, are parts of the Universal Church as a Troop is of an Army, and a City of a Kingdom.—Then it will unavoidably follow, that there must be a Catholic visible Head to a Catholic visible Church. And so Mr. Bs: Constitutive Regent part of a Church hath done the Pope a wonderful kindness—But there are some men in the world that do not attend the advantages they give to Popery, so they may but vent their spleen against the Church of England. But doth not Mr. B. say, that the Universal Church is headed by Christ; I grant he doth: But the Question is of the Visible Church of which particular Churches ⟨p. 118⟩are parts: And they being Visible parts, require a Visible Constitutive Regent Head,—therefore the whole Visible Church must have likewise a Constitutive Visible Regent part—This is to make a Key for Catholics?
§. 9. He adds, [Which I will prove to be false from Mr. B. himself. He asserts that there is one Catholick visible Church, and that all particular Churches headed by their particular Bishops or Pastors, are parts of the Universal Church as a Troop is of an Army, and a City of a Kingdom.—Then it will unavoidably follow, that there must be a Catholick visible Head to a Catholick visible Church. And so Mr. Bs: Constitutive Regent part of a Church hath done the Pope a wonderful kindness—But there are some men in the world that do not attend the advantages they give to Popery, so they may but vent their spleen against the Church of England. But doth not Mr. B. say, that the Universal Church is headed by Christ; I grant he doth: But the Question is of the Visible Church of which particular Churches ⟨p. 118⟩