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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.
CHAP. V.
III. What are the terms necessary to the Office and Exercise of the Sacred Ministry?
§. 1. The Schisms in the Church are far more among the Clergy than the people, and have been mostly exercised by Bishops militating against each other, and anathematizing each other as heretics or as not submitting to the challengers of superior jurisdiction: Or else in the Bishops silencing Christs Ministers for not obeying them as they expect: HARD WORDS for want of an equal skill in speaking, and JURISDICTION or superiority through pride and a carnal mind, contended for by the Clergy against each other, have torn the Church, and confounded States, and been the shame of Christianity in the eyes of Infidels, ⟨p. 201⟩and brought us to the low and broken state that we are in.
§. 1. THe Schisms in the Church are far more among the Clergy than the people, and have been mostly exercised by Bishops militating against each other, and anathematizing each other as hereticks or as not submitting to the challengers of superiour jurisdiction: Or else in the Bishops silencing Christs Ministers for not obeying them as they expect: HARD WORDS for want of an equal skill in speaking, and JURISDICTION or superiority through pride and a carnal mind, contended for by the Clergy against each other, have torn the Church, and confounded States, and been the shame of Christianity in the eyes of Infidels, ⟨p. 201⟩and brought us to the low and broken state that we are in.