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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
§. 1. Divers men speak diversly of this matter: 1. Some say that no form of the Polity of particular Churches is of Divine institution, but that God hath left all the forming of them to the will of man.
§. 1. DIvers men speak diversly of this matter: 1. Some say that no form of the Polity of particular Churches is of Divine institution, but that God hath left all the forming of them to the will of man.
2. Others say, that no form of them is lawful but what is of Divine institution.
And of the first, some say that Christ instituted the Papal form, and some say General Councils, the summam Potestatem to the universal Church, and left it to them to form particular Churches. Others say that Magistrates are to do it: And others that the Diocesan Bishops of every Nation in National or Provincial Synods may do it. But all agree that the form of particular Churches must be made, by some that had authority from Christ to do it.
And of the first, some say that Christ instituted the Papal form, and some say General Councils, the summam Potestatem to the universal Church, and left it to them to form particular Churches. Others say that Magistrates are to do it: And others that the Diocesane Bishops of every Nation in National or Provincial Synods may do it. But all agree that the form of particular Churches must be made, by some that had authority from Christ to do it.