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Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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.
CHAP. VI. The sum of the foregoing Propositions, and the Consistency of them with the Principles of each party, and so their aptitude to Reconcile.
§. 1. THE sum of all that I have propounded is, that though we cannot, we may not embrace the Government by Prelacy, as lately exercised here in England (how confidently soever some appropriate the title of the Church of England to the adherents of that frame,) yet would we not have the Church ungoverned, nor worse governed, nor will we refuse for peace such a kind of Episcopacy as is tolerable in the Church. And there are four sorts of Exercise of the Ministry, which if you please, you may call Episcopacy, which we shall not refuse when it may conduce to Peace.
§. 1. THE summ of all that I have propounded is, that though we cannot, we may not embrace the Government by Prelacy, as lately exercised here in England (how confidently soever some appropriate the title of the Church of England to the adherents of that frame,) yet would we not have the Church ungoverned, nor worse governed, nor will we refuse for peace such a kind of Episcpacy as is tolerable in the Church. And there are four sorts of Exercise of the Ministry, which if you please, you may call Episcopacy, which we shall not refuse when it may conduce to Peace.