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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)

Qu. Whether Humane Ceremonies be Necessary or Profitable to the Chu… › Chapter 9: Prop. 9. There is no mere Humane Universal Sovereign, Civil or Ecclesiastical, over the…Qu. Whether Humane Ceremonies be Necessary or Profitable to the Chu… › Chapter 9: Prop. 9. There is no meer Humane Vniversal Soveraign, Civil or Ecclesiastical, over the…

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§. 4. And if such an obligation by consent should be pretended, 3. I would know whether it was by this or by some former generation? Not by this as is certain. Nor by any former: For former ages had no power to bind all their successors in Ceremonies about the worship of God. Show whence they had such a power, and prove it, if you can: we are born as free men, as our ancestors were in this.

§. 4. And if such an obligation by consent should be pretended, 3. I would know whether it was by this or by some former generation? Not by this as is certain. Nor by any former: For former ages had no power to bind all their successors in Ceremonies about the worship of God. Shew whence they had such a power, and prove it, if you can: we are born as free men, as our ancestors were in this.

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§. 5. And 4. I would be satisfied, whether every mans consent in the world be necessary to the Universality, or not? If it be; then there are no Dissenters: or no obligation because no Universal consent. If not; then how many must consent before we are obliged? you have nothing to say, but [a Major part] where you can, with any show of reason, rest: And 1. How shall we know in every Parish in England, what mind the Major part of the Christians through the world are of, in point of such or such a Ceremony? 2. Yea by this rule, we have reason to think that both Papists and Protestants must change their Ceremonies, because the greater part of Christians (in East and South, and some in the West) are against very many of them.

§. 5. And 4. I would be satisfied, whether every mans consent in the world be necessary to the Vniversality, or not? If it be; then there are no Dissenters: or no obligation because no Universal consent. If not; then how many must consent before we are obliged? you have nothing to say, but [a Major part] where you can, with any shew of reason, rest: And 1. How shall we know in every Parish in England, what mind the Major part of the Christians through the world are of, in point of such or such a Ceremony? 2. Yea by this rule, we have reason to think that both Papists and Protestants must change their Ceremonies, because the greater part of Christians (in East and South, and some in the West) are against very many of them.

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Five disputations of church-government and worship

CHAP. X. Prop. 10. If it be not our Lawful Governors that command us, but usurpers, we are not formally bound to obey them, though the things be lawful which they command.

CHAP. X. Prop. 10. If it be not our Lawfull Governours that command us, but usurpers, we are not formally bound to obey them, though the things be lawfull which they command.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. X. Prop. 10. If it be not our Lawful Governors that command us, but usurpers, we are not formally bound to obey them, though the things be lawful which they command.

CHAP. X. Prop. 10. If it be not our Lawfull Governours that command us, but usurpers, we are not formally bound to obey them, though the things be lawfull which they command.