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Whether parish congregations be true Christian churches and the capable consenting incumbents, be truly…
Whether parish congregations be true Christian churches and the capable consenting incumbents, be truly their pastors, or bishops over their flocks ... : written by Richard Baxter as an explication of some passages in his former writings, especially his Treatise of episcopacy, misunderstood and misapplied by some, and answering the strongest objections of some of them, especially a book called, Mr. Baxters judgment and reasons against communicating with the parish assemblies, as by law required, and another called, A theological dialogue, or, Catholic communion once more defended, upon mens necessitating importunity / by Richard Baxter.Whether parish congregations be true Christian churches and the capable consenting incumbents, be truly their pastors, or bishops over their flocks ... : written by Richard Baxter as an explication of some passages in his former writings, especially his Treatise of episcopacy, misunderstood and misapplied by some, and answering the strongest objections of some of them, especially a book called, Mr. Baxters judgment and reasons against communicating with the parish assemblies, as by law required, and another called, A theological dialogue, or, Catholick communion once more defended, upon mens necessitating importunity / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1684
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2. When Paul ordinarily held his assemblies in the Jewish Synagogues, where half were Infidels, and half Christians, (before he separated his Christians from them) I think they were two Churches.
3. If Independents had leave to meet in the Parish churches, where the Parish Minister, and their own Minister should preach by turns, and the Parish only heard theirs as a lay preacher, or none of their Pastor, and so they heard the Parish Preachers; I doubt not, but they would be distinct church▪
If one Parish church have two Pastors, and one of them be professedly for an essential subjection to the Pope, and the other against it, and half the people of one mind, and half of the other, I think they are two Churches in one place.
If those Anabaptists who take none but the re-baptized for Church-members, should with their Pastors join with Independents in worship, tho esteeming them no churches, I suppose you think they would be distinct churches in one place.