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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)

Whether it be Necessary or Profitable to the right order or the Pea…: Whether it be Necessary or Profitable to the right order or the Peace of the Churches o…

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Prop. 9. The three things which Church power doth consist in, are (in conformity to the three parts of Christs own office) 1. About matter of Faith, 2. About matter of Worship, 3. About matter of Practice in other cases.

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1. Church-Governors about Doctrine or Matters of Faith, are the Peoples Teachers, but cannot oblige them to Err, or to believe any thing against God, nor make that to be truth or error that is not so be•ore.

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2. In matter of Worship, Church-guides are as Gods Priests, and are to go before the people, and stand between God and them, and present their prayers and praises to God, and administer his holy mysteries, and bless them in his name.

2. In matter of Worship, Church-guides are as Gods Priests, and are to go before the people, and stand between God and them, and present their prayers and prayses to God, and administer his holy mysteries, and bless them in his name.

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3. The Commanding Power of Pastors is in two things: 1. In Commanding them in the name of Christ to obey the Laws which he hath made them already. And this is the principal. 2. To give them new Directions of our own, which as is said, 1. Must not be against Gods Directions. 2. Nor about any matter which is not the object of our own office, but is without the verge of it. 3. But it is only in the making of under laws, for the better execution of the laws of Christ; and those under-laws must be only the Determination of Circumstances about Gods service which Scripture hath made necessary in genere, but left to the Governors determination in specie; and they are such as are alterable in several ages, countries, &c. so that it had been unfit for Christ to have determined them in his word, because his word is an universal Law for all ages and countries; and these Circumstances will not bear an universal determination: else why could not

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