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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 6: Ordination at this time, by English Prelates especially, is unnecessary.Assert. Those who nullifie our present Ministry and Churches, which… › Chapter 6: Ordination at this time, by English Prelates especially, is unnecessary.

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:691p. 192

Sect. 9. And if yet they plead the obligation of the ancient Laws (which is most insisted on by many) I must by way of just excuse, remember them of one thing, which its like they do not forget: that if those Laws are still in force to oblige us to seek Ordination from the Prelates, and to Authorize the Prelates to Ordain, notwithstanding the Laws of later Powers that have repealed them, then it must needs follow that those later Powers are taken for no Powers: and consequently that the same Laws do oblige the Prelates to put the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, as to some other Power, upon the Ordained before they lay hands upon them, and oblige the Ordained to take those Oaths, as well as to be so Ordained. For if they be yet of force in one, they are of […] in both. And so no man can be Ordained by you […] guilty of that which the present Laws make […] forfeiting his life: which I know nothing in the […] him to do.

Sect. 9. And if yet they plead the obligation of the ancient Laws (which is most insisted on by many) I must by way of just excuse, remember them of one thing, which its like they do not forget: that if those Laws are still in force to oblige us to seek Ordination from the Prelates, and to Authorize the Prelates to Ordain, notwithstanding the Laws of later Powers that have repealed them, then it must needs follow that those later Powers are taken for no Powers: and consequently that the same Laws do oblige the Prelates to put the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, as to some other Power, upon the O•dained before they lay hands upon them, and oblige the Ordained to take those Oaths, as well as to be so Ordained. For if they be yet of force in one, they are of 〈…〉 in both. And so no man can be Ordained by you 〈…〉 guilty of that which the present Lawes make 〈…〉 forfeiting his life: which I know nothing in the 〈…〉 him to do.

:692p. 192–193

[…] think I may conclude that it is your own ⟨p. 193⟩

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CHAP. VII. The Ordination used now in England and in other Protestant Churches, is Valid, and agreeable to Scripture and the Practice of the Ancient Church.