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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)

Assert. Those who nullify our present Ministry and Churches, which… › Chapter 4: An uninterrupted Succession of Regular Ordination, is not Necessary.Assert. Those who nullifie our present Ministry and Churches, which… › Chapter 4: An uninterrupted Succession of Regular Ordination, is not Necessary.

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Sect. 19. Bellarmine (lib 3. de Eccles. c. 10.) was so stalled with these difficulties that he leaves it as a thing that we cannot b• resolved of; that our Pastors have indeed [Potestatem Ordinis & Jurisdictionis] that is, that they are true Pastors. And he saith that [Non habemus certitudinem nisi Moralem, quod illi sint vere Episcopi.] But when he should prove it to us that there is a Moral Certainty, he leaves us to seek and gives us not so much as a ground to conjecture at any probability.

Sect. 19. Bellarmine (lib 3. de Eccles. c. 10.) was so stalled with these difficulties that he leaves it as a thing that we cannot b• resolved of; that our Pastors have indeed [Potestatem Ordinis & Iurisdictionis] that is, that they are true Pastors. And he saith that [Non habemus certitudinem nisi Moralem, quod illi sint vere Episcopi.] But when he should prove it to us that there is a Moral Certainty, he leaves us to seek and gives us not so much as a ground to conjecture at any probability.

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Sect. 20. But he saith that we may know that [some Pastors at least are true: or else God had forsaken his Church.] A•sw. But what the better are we for this, if we know not, which they are that are the true Pastors, nor cannot possibly come to know it?

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Sect 21. But he saith that [Quod Christi locum tenent, & quod debemus illi• obedientiam may be known: and thereupon he saith tha• Certe sumus certitudi infallibili quod isti quos videmus sine very Episcopi & Pastores nostri: Nam ad hoc non rquiritur, nec fides nec Character Ordinis, nec legitima Electio, sed solum ut

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