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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.
IV. What is necessary to the Constitution, Administration and Communion of single Churches?
§. 1. BY [single] and [Particular] Churches I still mean those that are compounded of many Christians, but not of many Churches.
And I take not the word [Church] in any of the la•e senses, (for civil, or occasional meetings, or societies, or for every religious concourse of Christians, as a Synod, an accidental day of fasting and prayer, &c.) nor for a mere Community or neighbourhood of Christians, nor for a Christian Kingdom or City, governed by the Magistrates sword: But for a proper Church as political consisting of Pastor and flock.
And I take not the word [Church] in any of the la•e senses, (for civil, or occasional meetings, or societies, or for every religious concourse of Christians, as a Synod, an accidental day of fasting and prayer, &c.) nor for a meer Community or neighbourhood of Christians, nor for a Christian Kingdom or City, governed by the Magistrates sword: But for a proper Church as political consisting of Pastor and flock.