A27046:195
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.
XII. To explain my self, when I mention a Bishop or Pastor, I mean the Bishop or Pastor of a Church: and I take not Heathens for the Church.
XIII. I believe that in this Universal Church are thousands of particular Churches, and this by Christs Institution.
XIV. I believe that there is no particular Church or Christian on earth, who is not (respectively as Visible or Mystical) a part of the Universal Church.
XV. As every worshipping Assembly is a Church in a larger sense, so a Church in a political sense is essentially constituted of the Pastor and People, or the Sacerdotal guiding and the guided parts: and of such a Church it is that I am speaking.