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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.
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.
§. 2. Of the second sort (who hold no form of a particular Church lawful, but what is of Divine institution) some hold that only a Diocesan Church (that hath many Congregations and Altars) is of Divine institution, and that the Parochial are not Churches but Oratories or Chapels, or parts of a Church: Others ho•d that only Parochial Churches (of one Altar or associated for personal Communion in presence) ⟨p. 107⟩are of Divine institution: some that both Diocesan and Parochial Churches are of Divine institution; and some that these and Provincial, National, Patriarchal (and the Papal) are of Divine institution: Thus do mens judgements vary.
§. 2. Of the second sort (who hold no form of a particular Church lawful, but what is of Divine institution) some hold that only a Diocesan Church (that hath many Congregations and Altars) is of Divine institution, and that the Parochial are not Churches but Oratories or Chapels, or parts of a Church: Others ho•d that only Parochial Churches (of one Altar or associated for personal Communion in presence)