A27046:182
A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our…
A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's fanatic Prophecy / by Richard Baxter.A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's phanatic Prophesie / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Jacob Sampson, 1681
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.
CHAP. II. What the Doctrine is which he accuseth of Atheism, Impiety, &c.
§ 1. THE Reader that hath well perused my Writings knoweth it: but I cannot expect that all should do so that read his Book. The abstract is this.
I. That Jesus Christ is Head over all things to the Church, Eph. 1. 22, 23.
II. That the Mosaical Law, as such, never bound other Kingdoms, and is ceased, with their Commonwealth, and is abrogated by Christ, and that he as King of the Church, hath established a sufficient Law for all that is universally necessary for Doctrine, Worship, and Church-order or Government: and was faithful in all his house as Moses, and Commissioned his Apostles to Disciple Nations, Baptizing them and teaching them what Christ himself had commanded them, Matth. 28. 19.