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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.
This necessary distinction premised, I say, that special Grace is necessary to that Call of a Minister that must be warrantable and justifiable to himself before God; but it i• not necessary to that call that's justifiable before the Church, and is necessary to our submission and to the blessing of the Ordinances and their Validity to our good.
This necessary distinction premised, I say, that special Grace is necessary to that Call of a Minister that must be warrantable and justifyable to himself before God; but it i• not necessary to that call that's justifyable before the Church, and is necessary to our submission and to the blessing of the Ordinances and their Validity to our good.
Sect. 7. But yet here are some Qualifications essentially necessary, to Dispose the man to be Receptive of the Ministry, coram Ecclesia (though saving grace be not.) As 1. It is of Necessity that he be a Christian by Profession; and so that he Profess that faith, repentance, love, obedience, which is saving. For the Minister in question is only A Christian Minister: and therefore he must be a Christian, & aliquid amplius by profession.
2. It is therefore Necessary that he Profess and seem to Understand and Believe all the Articles of the faith, that are essential to Christianity, and do not heretically deny any one of these (what ever he do by inferior Articles.)
2. It is therefore Necessary that he Profess and seem to Understand and Believe all the Articles of the faith, that are essential to Christianity, and do not heretically deny any one of these (what ever he do by inferiour Articles.)