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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

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Qu. Whether Humane Ceremonies be Necessary or Profitable to the Chu… › Chapter 8: Prop. 8. Those orders may be profitable for the Peace of the Churches in one Nation, th…

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CHAP. VIII. Prop. 8. Those orders may be profitable for the Peace of the Churches in one Nation, that are not necessary to the Peace of the Churches in many Nations.

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§. 1. I mention this 1. Because the Romanists are so peremptory for the Necessity of their ceremonies through all the world: as if the unity, peace, or well being of the Church, at least, did hang on these. And yet sometimes they could dispense with the different rites of the Greeks, if they could but have got them under their power by it.

§. 1. I mention this 1. Because the Romanists are so peremptory for the Necessity of their ceremonies through all the world: as if the unity, peace, or well being of the Church, at least, did hang on these. And yet sometimes they could dispence with the different rites of the Greeks, if they could but have got them under their power by it.

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§. 2. Also 2. Because the Protestants called Lutherans, stick so rigidly on their ceremonies (as Private Confession, Exorcism, Images, Vestments, &c.) as if these had been necessary to the unity of the Churches. And the Pacifiers find a difficulty in reconciling the Churches of several nations, because these expect an uniformity in ceremonies.

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Five disputations of church-government and worship

CHAP. VIII. Prop. 8. Those orders may be profitable for the Peace of the Churches in one Nation, that are not necessary to the Peace of the Churches in many Nations.

CHAP. IX. Prop. 9. There is no mere Humane Universal Sovereign, Civil or Ecclesiastical, over the whole Church, and therefore none to make Laws Obligatory to the whole.

CHAP. IX. Prop. 9. There is no meer Humane Vniversal Soveraign, Civil or Ecclesiastical, over the whole Church, and therefore none to make Laws Obligatory to the whole.

Reformers309

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Westminster Assembly24

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CHAP. VIII. Prop. 8. Those orders may be profitable for the Peace of the Churches in one Nation, that are not necessary to the Peace of the Churches in many Nations.

CHAP. IX. Prop. 9. There is no mere Humane Universal Sovereign, Civil or Ecclesiastical, over the whole Church, and therefore none to make Laws Obligatory to the whole.

CHAP. IX. Prop. 9. There is no meer Humane Vniversal Soveraign, Civil or Ecclesiastical, over the whole Church, and therefore none to make Laws Obligatory to the whole.