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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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If there be Twenty Justices of the Peace in a County, and the King add Ten more, it doth not alter the form of Government: At the Sessions one must be for order sake the Judg of the Sessions, and the other Justices do not devolve the exercise of their power upon him, nor hath he more power than the rest, every one exerts his own power: So in the Parliament, a Speaker must be, but no superiority of power, nor devolving the exercise of the power of the other Members upon him: so it is in the Church.
That Eminent Servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker, alloweth of an Episcopus Humanus in the Consociation of Churches, to moderate the actions of the Assembly, to propound things to be agitated, to gather voices, to pronounce the Sentence which passed by common approbation. Reason and order saith he, forceth such a kind of proceeding, Survey Chu. Disc. p. 1. Cap. 2. p. 22, 23. only the constancy of it he denies from experience. There is the pinch.
Prop. 5. This Primacy (I humbly conceive) did continue in that Elder, during his life, (unless for some default he were cast out by his fellow Elders) I shall wrangle with none of my brethren, nor differ from them in affection about it, but I shall ground my notion on the Angel of the Church, Apoc. 2. &c.