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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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3ly. By the Seven Epistles to the Churches, I find him in his Primacy, do you prove it was but for one or two Sessions, not during his life. Certainly that Angel was well known in the Church to whom Christ wrote: in some Churches commending him, in others discommending; though its true, the Epistles concerned the whole Church.
4ly. This Angel is not the Moderator in a consociation of Churches, as Reverend Mr. Hooker speaks of, whose constancy in the place may ⟨p. 75⟩be bad, but the Primate among the Elders of one particular Church: so that his fear does not reach us.
Q. 3. For the Jus Divinum of this.
This form Dr. Stillingfleet cannot deny the Apostles did constitute in the Churches; but it seems the Apostolical practice, though they were guided by the Spirit of Christ, is not sufficient to make a Jus Divinum, a positive Law; for it is demanded.