A27066:82
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline,…
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entitled, A defence of the principles of love.Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.
London: printed for Walter Kettilby, 1682
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.
3. We leave room for audacious Wits to question other Gospel-Institutions, as Pastors, Sacraments, &c. and to say, that they were but for an Age only.
3. We leave room for audacious Wits to question other Gospel-Institutions, as Pastors, Sacraments, &c. and to say, that they were but for an Age onely.
4. It was general Officers that Christ promised to be with to the end of the World, Matth. 28.20. Now, says he, this will hold good, or not; if not, then this General Ministry is to be numbered among humane additions, to be next treated of. If it do, then there is *another part of the Form of Government (i.e. distinct from that of Presbyters and Deacons) proved to be of Divine Institution. I say not another Church, but another part of the Government of both Churches universal and particular, because such general Officers are so in the universal, as to have a general oversight of the particular. As an Army headed only by the General himself, and a Regiment by the Colonel, and a Troop by the Captain; but the general ⟨p. 28⟩Officers of the Army, as the Lieutenants General, and Majors General, &c. are under the Lord General, in and over the Army, and have a general oversight over the particular Bodies, (Regiments and Troops.)
4. It was general Officers that Christ promised to be with to the end of the World, Matth. 28.20. Now, says he, this will hold good, or not; if not, then this General Ministry is to be numbred among humane additions, to be next treated of. If it do, then there is *