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Five disputations of church-government and worship

Name: Five disputations of church-government and worship
Author: Richard Baxter

Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659

[10], 38, [10], 24, 492 p. · 215k words · Wing B1267 · ESTC R13446

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

AN Episcopacy Desirable for the Reformation, Preservation, and Peac… › Chapter 3: It is Lawful for the several Associations of Pastors to choose one man to be their Pre…AN Episcopacy Desirable for the Reformation, Preservation, and Peac… › Chapter 3: It is Lawfull for the several Associations of Pastors to choose one man to be their Pre…

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§. 32. Quest. But what will you take for a Case of Necessity? which you will except? Answ. 1. If the President be dead. 2. Or sick, or absent and cannot come. 3. Or if he be malignant, and wilfully refuse to Consent that the Church be well provided for, ⟨p. 306⟩or Governed. 4. And withal supposing that without the great hurt or hazard of the Churches, we cannot delay the business, till he be one, or do Consent. 5. Especially if he be set in enmity against the welfare of the Church: and by pretence of a suspending vote would destroy the Church, and bring in unworthy hurtful persons or things. In all such Cases of Necessity, its time to lay by our humane Rules for peace and Order.

§. 32. Quest. But what will you take for a Case of Necessity? which you will except? Answ. 1. If the President be dead. 2. Or sick, or absent and cannot come. 3. Or if he be malignant, and wilfully refuse to Consent that the Church be well provided for, ⟨p. 306⟩or Governed. 4. And withall supposing that without the great hurt or hazzard of the Churches, we cannot delay the business, till he be one, or do Consent. 5. Especially if he be set in enmity against the welfare of the Church: and by pretence of a suspending vote would destroy the Church, and bring in unworthy hurtful persons or things. In all such Cases of Necessity, its time to lay by our humane Rules for peace and Order.

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§. 33. Object. But who shall be judge of this Necessity? Answ. The Magistrate only shall be the Compelling Judge. The people shall be the Discerning Judges: the Pastors shall at least have as much power as the People: each of them shall Discern, so far as they must obey and execute. And God only shall be the final Judge.

§. 33. Object. But who shall be judge of this Necessity? Answ. The Magistrate only shall be the Compelling Iudge. The people shall be the Discerning Iudges: the Pastors shall at least have as much power as the People: each of them shall Discern, so far as they must obey and execute. And God only shall be the final Iudge.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. IV. It is Lawful for the Presbyters of a particular Church, to have a fixed President, during life.