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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.
Sect. 2. By Regular Ordination, I mean in the sense of the adversaries themselves, such as the Canons of the Church pronounce not Null, and such as by the Canons was done by such as had Authority to do it: in special, by true Bishops (even in their own sense.)
Sect. 2. By Regular Ordination, I mean in the sence of the adversaries themselves, such as the Canons of the Church pronounce not Null, and such as by the Canons was done by such as had Authority to do it: in special, by true Bishops (even in their own sence.)
Sect. 3. And if the uninterrupted succession be not Necessary, then neither is such Ordination at this present Necessary to the being of the Ministry: For if any of our predecessors might be Ministers without it, others in the like case may be so too. For we live under the same Law, and the Office is the same thing now as it was then.
Sect. 3. And if the unin•errupted succession be not Necessary, then neither is such Ordination at this present Necessary to the being of the Ministry: For if any of our predecessors might be Ministers without it, others in the like case may be so too. For we live under the same Law, and the Office is the same thing now as it was then.
Sect. 4. Argument 1. If uninterrupted Regular Ordination of all our Predecessors be Necessary to the Being of the Ministry, ⟨p. 169⟩then no man can know that he is truly a Minister of Christ. But the Consequent is false, and intolerable; therefore so is the Antecedent.