A69533:631

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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:628p. 174

Sect. 26. Argument 6. As other actions of usurpers are not Nullities to the innocent Church, so neither is their Ordinanation: and consequently, those that are Ordained by usurpers, may be true Ministers. If their Baptizing, Preaching, Praises, Consecration and administration of the Eucharist, binding and loosing, be not Nullities, it follows undeniably on the same account, that their Ordinations are not Nullities: and consequently, that they are true Ministers whom they ordain; and succession of a more regular Ordination is not of Necessity, to the Ministry, Church or Ordinances.

Sect. 26. Argument 6. As other actions of usurpers are not Nullities to the innocent Church, so neither is their Ordinanation: and consequently, those that are Ordained by usurpers, may be true Ministers. If their Baptizing, Preaching, Praises, Consecration and administration of the Eucharist, binding and loosing, be not Nullities, it follows undenyably on the same account, that their Ordinations are not Nullities: and consequently, that they are true Ministers whom they ordain; and succession of a more regular Ordination is not of Necessity, to the Ministry, Church or Ordinances.

:629p. 174–175

Sect. 27. Argument 7. If such uninterrupted succession be not Necessary to be Known, then is it not Necessary to the Being of the Ministry or Validity of Ordinances administered; But such a succession is not Necessary to be known: therefore—The Consequence of the Major is plain, because ⟨p. 175⟩the Being or Nullity of Office and administrations, had never been treated off by God to men, nor had it been revealed, or a thing regardable, but that we may know it: Nor doth it otherwise attain its ends. And that it is not necessary to be known, I further prove.

Sect. 27. Argument 7. If such uninterrupted succession be not Necessary to be Known, then is it not Necessary to the Being of the Ministry or Validity of Ordinances administred; But such a succession is not Necessary to be known: therefore—The Consequence of the Major is plain, because ⟨p. 175⟩

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. V. Ordination by such as the English Prelates, not Necessary to the Being of the Ministry.